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Hans Binswanger
Curriculum Vitae of Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize
I am a well known agricultural development economist. After a long career in the World Bank I now work as an independent consultant from South Africa. I am a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and of the American Agricultural Economics Association, a recipient of the Elmhirst Medal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and am listed in “Who is Who in Economics.
I have worked as a researcher, policy analyst and advisor, designer of rural development and HIV-AIDS programs, and as an activist on HIV-AIDS and for gay and lesbian rights. I have published on a on a wide range of topics: the economics of technology generation and its impact, food security, agricultural mechanization, the evolution of farming systems in Africa, farmer behavior under risk, agricultural supply response, the impact of rural finance on agricultural investment, production relations in agriculture, the world history of land accumulation and land reform, the political economy of agricultural and agrarian policies, agriculture and food policy, land policy and land reform, community-driven development, rural development strategy, and approaches to combat HIV and AIDS.
Contact information: PO Box 295, Willow Acres Pretoria 0095, South Africa, Tel: +27 82 756 8351, e-mail: Binswangerh@gmail.com Born 1943, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. Current positions: Professor Extraordinaire, Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, Tshwane, South Africa Senior Fellow, Amsterdam Institute for Development, 2004 to present Chairman: Community and Enterprise Development Against Stigma (CEDAS) Trust, Harare, Zimbabwe Consultant: World Bank, NEPAD, African Development Bank, Australian AID, International Fund for Agricultural Development Past Positions: Senior Advisor, Africa Region, World Bank, 2003-2004 Director for Environmental, Rural, and Social Development, Africa Region, World Bank, 1996-2002 President, AIDS Empowerment and Treatment International 1999-2003 Senior Agricultural Policy Advisor, Rural Development Department, World Bank,
1994-1996
Senior Advisor, Latin American and Carribean Region, 1992-1994 Agricultural Division Chief, Mexico and Central America, 1987-1992 Senior Economist, World Bank, various assignments1980-1994 Research Associate, Department of Economics, Yale University: 1978-79 Principal Economist, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India, 1975-80 Research Associate, University of Minnesota, 1973-74 Associate, Agricultural Development Council, NY, 1974-80. Education Certificat in Political Sciences, University of Paris, 1964 MSc in Agricultural Sciences, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland, 1969 Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1973. Awards Elmhirst Medal of the International Association of Agricultural Economist, 2006 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 2002 Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA), 1997 Distinguished Alumnus, College of Business and Economics, North Carolina State University, 2001 Who is Who in Economics, Edited by Mark Blaug, 1986 and 1996 Quality of Research Discovery from the AAEA, 1988 Quality of Research Discovery from the AAEA, 1979 Editorial Duties Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1983-84. Working Languages German, English, French, Spanish; some speaking knowledge of Hindi.
Selected References by Topic
1. ARD Strategy and Policy
Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, 2010, “The prospects for Indian agriculture and rural poverty reduction, ” Washington DC, Centennial Group, Draft Concept Paper Hans P. Binswanger, “Empowering Rural People for their own Development.” 2008, in Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan (eds.), Contributions of Agricultural Economics to Critical Policy Issues. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008 Binswanger, H.P., and E. Lutz. 2000. “Agriculture Trade Barriers, Trade Negotiations, and the Interests of Developing Countries.” Paper presented at the Round Table for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, February, Bangkok. Binswanger, H.P., and K. Deininger. 1997. “Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries.” Journal of Economic Literature 35: 1958–2005. Hans P. Binswanger, Agricultural and Rural Development: Painful Lessons, 1998, in Carl K. Eicher and John M. Staatz, eds. 1998, International Agricultural Development, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, Third Edition Binswanger, H.P., and K. Deininger. 1997. “Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries.” Journal of Economic Literature 35: 1958–2005. World Bank, 1997, “From Vision to Action in the Rural Sector,” A Sector development Strategy, Washington DC World Bank, 1995, “A Strategic Vision for Rural, Agricultural and Natural Resources Activities of the World Bank, Washington DC World Bank. 1983. Growth and Employment in Rural Thailand. Prepared by Hans P. Binswanger and others. World Bank Report No. 3906-TH.
2.Poverty and Hunger Binswanger, Hans P. and Pierre Landell-Mills. 1995. The World Bank’s Strategy for Reducing Poverty and Hunger: A Report to the Development Community. Environmentally Sustainable Development and Monographs Series No. 4. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. Binswanger, Hans P. and R.P. Singh. 1994. “Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth in India’s Semi-Arid Tropics”, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 49, No. 1 (Jan-March). Binswanger, Hans P. and R.P. Singh. 1988. "Individual Performance and Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth and Education in Farming Communities of India," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, (December).
3. HIV and AIDS Hans P. Binswanger, 2006, “Food and Agricultural Policy to Mitigate the Impact of HIV/AIDS,” Paper presented at the AAEA session on “Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health in High- and Low-Income Countries: Policy Issues” at the IAAE Conference in Brisbane, Australia, August 13-18, 2006 Binswanger, Hans P. 2003: “Willingness to Pay for AIDS Treatment: Myths and Reality.” The Lancet, Vol. 362, pp 152-153. Binswanger, Hans P. 2001: “HIV/AIDS Treatment For Millions.” Science, Vol. 292, pp 221-223 Binswanger, Hans P. 2000, “Scaling up HIV/AIDS Programs to National Coverage.” Science, Vol. 288:2173-2176.
4. Production Relations in Agriculture Binswanger, Hans P. and Mark R. Rosenzweig. 1986. "Behavioural and Material Determinants of Production Relations in Agriculture." The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3 (April): 503-539. Also available in Japanese. Binswanger, Hans P. and John McIntire. 1987. "Behavioral and Material Determinants of Production Relations in Land-abundant Tropical Agriculture." Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 36, No. 1 (October): 73-99. Binswanger, Hans P. and Mark R. Rosenzweig, eds. 1984. Contractual Arrangements, Employment, and Wages in Rural Labor Markets in Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press.
4.African Agriculture and ARD strategy Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Alex F. McCalla and Praful Patel, 2010, “Structural Transformation and African Agriculture,” Journal of Emerging Economies, forthcoming, http://www.emergingmarketsforum.org/papers/pdf/2009-EMF-Africa-Binswanger_McCalla_Patel_Agriculture_Transformation.pdf Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize and Madhur Gautam, 2010, “Towards an Internationally Competitive Tanzanian Agriculture, Washington DC, draft mimeo (I can send it to you) Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, 2009 “Challenges and Opportunities for African Agriculture and Food Security: High Food Prices, Climate Change, Population Growth, and HIV and AIDS”, Rome, FAO, Expert Meeting on “How to Feed the World in 2050” FAO Headquarters, Rome, 24-26 June 2009, Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Alex McCalla, 2009 “The Changing Context and Prospects for African Agricultural Development,” International Fund for Agricultural Development and African Development Bank, Rome and Tunis, http://www.ifad.org/evaluation/jointevaluation/docs/annex1.pdf Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Alex McCalla, 2009 “The Changing Context and Prospects for African Agricultural Development,” in Robert E. Evenson and Prabhu Pingali, eds. “Agricultural Development, “ Handbook of Agricultural Development, vol 4, Amsterdam, Elsevier. This is the full length version of the report above. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/15740072 World Bank. 2009. “Awakening Africa’s Sleeping Giant; Prospects for Commercial Agriculture in the Guinea Savannah Zone and Beyond.” Directions in Development. Washington, DC: World Bank and FAO. http://extop-workflow.worldbank.org/extop/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=9081348 World Bank, 2009, “MALAWI: Country Economic Memorandum: Seizing Opportunities For Growth Through Regional Integration and Trade: Agriculture”Chapter in Volume 1 and background paper in volume 2. Report No. 47969-MW, Washington DC, 2009. With Hardiwck Tchale and David Rohrbach
5. Land Policy and Land Reform Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Camille Bourguignon and Rogier van den Brink, eds. 2009, “Agricultural Land Redistribution: Towards Greater Consensus,” Washington DC, The World Bank Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Roland Henderson, Zweli Mbhele, Jose Magasela, Kay Muir Leresche, 2009, Towards stakeholder-driven land reform in South Africa, manuscript submitted to World Dvelopment Special Issue in Honor of Michael Lipton. Inyamazane Consulting, 2009, “Stakeholder-driven Land Reform: Manual for South Africa” Besters, South Africa Hans P. Binswanger, Roland Henderson, Zweli Mbhele, and Kay Muir-Leresche, 2007 “Accelerating Sustainable, Efficient and Equitable Land Reform: Case Study of the Qedusizi/Besters Cluster Project,” Pretoria, World Bank, Mimeo, 2007 Van den Brink, Rogier, Glen Thomas, Hans Binswanger, John Bruce and Frank Byamugisha, 2006 “Consensus, Confusion and Controversy, Selected Land Reform Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa,” World Bank Working Paper No. 71, Washington DC, 2006 Van Zyl, J., J. Kirsten and H. P. Binswanger (editors). 1996. “Agricultural Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, markets and mechanisms.” Cape Town: Oxford University Press. Binswanger, Hans P., Klaus Deininger, and Gershon Feder. 1995. “Power Distortions Revolt and Reform in Agricultural Land Relations.” In J. Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan, eds., Handbook of Development Economics, Volume III. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science B.V. Deininger, Klaus and Hans P. Binswanger,1995, “Rent Seeking and the Development of Large Scale Agriculture in Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 43, (3): 493-522. Binswanger, Hans P. and Klaus Deininger. 1993. "South African Land Policy: The Legacy of History and Current Options". World Development, Vol. 21, No. 9 (February): pp 1451-1475. Kinsey, Bill H. and Hans P. Binswanger. 1993. "Characteristics and Performance of Settlement Programs: A Review". World Development Vol. 21 (September): 1477-1494.Community-Driven Development
6. Local and Community-Driven Development African Development Bank, 2010, “Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Community Driven Development and Rural Poverty Alleviation” Beijing (with Cliff Burklye and Jacomina de Regt), http://www.adb.org/Documents/Events/2009/CDD-Rural-Poverty-Alleviation/CDD-Summary-Proceedings.pdf Hans P. Binswanger, Jacomina de Regt, and Stephen Spector, 2009, “Local and Community-Driven Development, Moving to Scale in Theory and Practice,” New Frontiers in Social Policy, Washington DC, World Bank Hans Binswanger, Fátima Amazonas, Tulio Barbosa, Alberto Costa, Naércio Menezes, Elaine Pazello,and Claudia Romano, 2009, “Rural Poverty Reduction in Brazil: An Evalutation of Community-Driven Development, Washington DC Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Roland Henderson, Zweli Mbhele, Jose Magasela, Kay Muir Leresche, 2009, Towards stakeholder-driven land reform in South Africa, manuscript submitted to World Dvelopment Special Issue in Honor of Michael Lipton. (I can send it to you) Inyamazane Consulting, 2009, “Stakeholder-driven Land Reform: Manual for South Africa” Besters, South Africa (I can send it to you) Hans Binswanger and Tuu-Van Nguyen, 2006, “Scaling Up Community-Driven Development: A Step-By-Step Guide,” World Bank CDD website
7. Natural Resources Batsaikhan Usukh, Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, Raffael Himmelsbach and Karl Schuler, 2009, “Fostering Sustainable Livelihoods of Herders in Mongolia via Collective Action, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolian Society for Rangeland Management, mimeo, ttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/677947/14122009_collective_action_study.pdf Mongolian Society for Rangeland Management, 2009, “Livelihood Study of Herders in Mongolia”, Ulaan Batar, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/677947/14122009_Livelihood_study.pdf Holden, Stein T. and Hans P. Binswanger, 1998, “Small-Farmer Decision Making, Market Imperfections, and Natural Resource Management in Developing Countries,” Chapter 5 in Lutz et al. cited just above Lutz, Ernst, ed., with the Assistance of Hans P Binswanger, Peter Hazell and Alexander McCalla, 1998, “Agriculture and the Environment: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development,” Washington DC, A World Bank Symposium. Heath, John and Hans P. Binswanger. 1996. “Natural Resource Degradation effects of poverty and population growth are largely policy-induced: the case of Colombia”. Environment and Development Economics, Vol. 1, part 1 (February 1996). Cambridge University Press. Rosegrant, Mark W. and Hans P. Binswanger. 1994. “Markets in Tradable Water Rights: Potential for Efficiency Gains in Developing Country Water Resource Allocation”. World Development, Vol. 22. No. 11 (November). Binswanger, Hans P. 1991. Brazilian Policies That Encourage Deforestation in the Amazon." World Development, Vol. 19, No. 7 (July).
7. Technology Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, 2007, “The Roles and Productivity of International Centers in Africa’s Agricultural Research Systems,” Concept Paper for the African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology (AMCOST), Pretoria, NEPAD, 2007 Binswanger, Hans P. and Joachim von Braun. 1991. "Technological Change and Commercialization in Agriculture. The Effect on the Poor." The World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January): 57-80. Binswanger, Hans P. and Prabhu Pingali. 1988. "Technological Priorities for Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa." The World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 3, No. 1 (January): 81-98. Quizon, Jaime and Hans P. Binswanger. 1986. "Modeling the Impact of Agricultural Growth and Government Policy on Income Distribution in India." The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September): 103-148.
8. Induced Innovation Binswanger, Hans P. and Vernon W. Ruttan. 1978. Induced Innovation: Technology, Institutions and Development. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Binswanger, Hans P. 1974. "A Microeconomic Approach to Induced Innovation." Economic Journal, Vol. 84, No. 336, (December): 940-958. Binswanger, Hans P. 1974. "The Measurement of Technical Change Biases with Many Factors on Production." American Economic Review, Vol. 64, No. 6 (December): 964-976. Pingali, Prabhu, Yves Bigot and Hans P. Binswanger. 1987. Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Also available in French from World Bank.
9. Agricultural Mechanization World Bank, 1987. Agricultural Mechanization: Issues and Options. A World Bank Policy Study prepared by Hans P. Binswanger and Graeme Donovan. Also available in French and Spanish Pingali, Prabu L, and Hans P Binswanger, 1987, “Population density and agricultural intensification: a study of the evolution of technologies in tropical agriculture,” In: Population growth and economic development: issues and evidence, edited by D. Gale Johnson and Ronald D. Lee. Madison, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Press,:27-56. Binswanger, Hans P. 1986. "Agricultural Mechanization: A Comparative Historical Perspective." The World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January): 27-56. Binswanger, Hans P. 1978. The Economics of Tractors in South Asia: An Analytical Review. New York : The Agricultural Development Council and Hyderabad, India: ICRISAT.
9. Risk Rosenzweig, Mark R. and Hans P. Binswanger. 1993. "Wealth, Weather Risk and the Profitability of Agricultural Investment". Economic Journal, Vol. 103 (January): 56-78. (WPS 1055) Quizon, Jaime B., Hans P. Binswanger and Mark J. Machina 1984, Attitudes Toward Risk: Further Remarks, The Economic Journal, Vol. 94, No. 373 (Mar., 1984), pp. 144-148 Binswanger, Hans P and Donald A. Sillers, 1983, “Risk aversion and credit constraints in farmers' decision-making: A reinterpretation, Journal of Development Studies, Volume 20, Issue 1 October 1983 , pages 5 – 21. Binswanger, Hans P. 1981. "Attitude Toward Risk, Theoretical Implications of an Experiment in Rural India." Economic Journal, Vol. 9: 867-890. Binswanger, Hans P. 1980. "Attitudes Toward Risk, Experimental Measurement in Rural India." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 62 (August): 395-407.
10. Agricultural Supply and Demand Binswanger, Hans P., Shahidur R. Khandker and Mark R. Rosenzweig. 1993. "How Infrastructure and Financial Institutions Affect Agricultural Output and Investment in India”. Journal of Development Economics 41, 337-366. Binswanger, H.P. 1989. “The Policy Response of Agriculture.” In S. Fischer and D. de Tray, eds., Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics 1989. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Binswanger, Hans P., Maw-Cheng Yang, Alan Bowers, and Yair Mundlak. 1987. "On the Determinants of Cross-Country Aggregate Agricultural Supply." Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 36,: 111-131. Bapna, Shanti L., Hans P. Binswanger and Jaime B. Quizon. 1984. "Systems Output Supply and Factor Demand Equations for Semi-Arid Tropical India." Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 39, No. 2 (April-June): 179-202. Swamy, Gurushri and Hans P. Binswanger. 1983. "Flexible Consumer Demand Systems and Linear Estimation: Food in India." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 65, No. 4 (November): 675-684. Binswanger, Hans P., 1974, “A Cost Function Approach to the Measurement of Elasticities of Factor Demand and Elasticities of Substitution,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 377-386
11. Rural Finance Hans P. Binswanger and Rogier van den Brink, 2005, “Credit for Small Farmers in Africa Revisited: Pathologies and Remedies,” Savings for Development, No 3. Binswanger, Hans P., Shahidur R. Khandker and Mark R. Rosenzweig. 1993. "How Infrastructure and Financial Institutions Affect Agricultural Output and Investment in India”. Journal of Development Economics 41, 337-366. Binswanger, Hans P. and S.R. Khandker. 1995. “The Impact of Formal Finance on the Rural Economy of India.” The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2 (December 1995). Village Studies Singh, R.P. , Hans P. Binswanger and Narpat Jodha, 1985, “Manual of Instructions for Economic Investigators in ICRISAT’s Village Level Studies,” Patancheru, India, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, mimeo Binswanger, Hans P., James G. Ryan, N. S. Jodha and Matthias von Oppen. 1977. "Approach and Hypotheses for the Village Level Studies." Economics Program, Occasional Paper No. 15 (June)
Plus another 80 or so articles and Book chapters.