Annual Meeting 2005
The 41st Annual Meeting of
The Association for International Agriculture 
and Rural Development
June 5-7, 2005

Speakers and Panelists

Steven Radelet specializes on issues related to foreign aid, debt, economic growth, and poverty reduction. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Africa, the Middle East, and Asia from January 2000 through June 2002.

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From 1990-2000 he was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and a Lecturer on Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University. From 1991-95 he was a resident advisor to the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia, and from 1986-88 served in a similar capacity with the Ministry of Finance in The Gambia. He is the author of Challenging Foreign Aid: A Policymaker's Guide to the Millennium Challenge Account and co-author of the undergraduate textbook Economics of Development (W.W. Norton, 5th edit ion). He holds Ph.D. and MPP degrees from Harvard University.