Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Director, BASIS Collaborative Research Support
Program
MICHAEL
CARTER is
professor of
agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin. He is also director of the BASIS
Collaborative Research Support Program that studies rural poverty
alleviation
strategies in Africa, Asia and Latin
American. Author
of numerous articles and books, Carter’s research focuses on the nature
of
growth and transformation in low income economies, giving particular
attention
to how inequality in the distribution of assets shape, and are shaped
by,
economic growth. While working primarily
through the econometric analysis of household and firm level data,
Carter has
also made theoretical contributions on the economics of asset
accumulation,
institutional innovation and credit rationing.
He carried out the fieldwork for his dissertation on the
Peruvian land
reform, and has since had numerous other research projects in
Latin
America, Africa and Asia. Carter has been working on South African
income distribution dynamics since 1994 when he joined a team analyzing
a national
living standards survey. His current
projects include analyses of the long-run impact of HIV/AIDS on
poverty, social
capital and the reproduction of inequality in ethnically stratified
societies,
and poverty dynamics and productive social safety nets.
Carter’s teaching at Wisconsin
includes undergraduate and
graduate courses in development economics, as well as a courses on the
economics of globalization.
| email |
mrcarter@wisc.edu |
 |
| phone |
+1 608 263-2478 |
| fax |
+1 608 262-4376 |
| office |
421 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch Street
Madison, WI 53706
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