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Kevin Morrison

Kevin Morrison is a Fellow at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, and will receive his Ph.D. in political science from Duke University in December. His research interest is principally in conflicts over the distribution and redistribution of limited economic resources, and the relationship between that conflict and international and domestic political institutions.  Mr. Morrison is currently working on a dissertation, partly funded by the National Science Foundation, which focuses on the effects of non-tax revenue (such as foreign aid and income from state-owned natural resource enterprises) on political regimes.  He argues that these resources can reduce redistributional conflicts in society and therefore stabilize both democracies and dictatorships.  Mr. Morrison's research has been published in Development Policy Review, Electoral Studies, and Public Choice, as well as edited volumes.  Kevin Morrison has earned an M.A. in economics (Duke), an M.Sc. in development studies (London School of Economics), and a B.A. in political science (Emory University).

Mr. Morrison also has a background in development policy, having been a Fellow at the Overseas Development Council (ODC) and consulted for the World Bank and the Center for Global Development.  While at ODC, he co-authored (with Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandler) The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and was a member of the core team of authors of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/01: Attacking Poverty, writing the chapters on the international actions necessary for poverty reduction.  He is currently a member of the Africa Task Force, a group of policymakers and academics co-directed by Kwesi Botchwey and Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue.