David L Bevan

Research Associate, CSAE
University Lecturer in Economics
Fellow, St John's College

Biography

David Bevan studied economics at Cambridge. He has worked as an economic adviser to the British and Kenyan governments, and as a consultant to a number of international agencies, including the World Bank, ILO, OECD and EC. Since 1975 he has been a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and is one of the founders of CSAE. He is a member of the advisory committee of the African Economic Research Consortium and chairman of its research sub-committee. His main research interests are in the fields of public economics and macroeconomic policy analysis and his research includes studies of Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Publications include Peasants and Governments (1989) and Controlled Open Economies (1990), both published by Clarendon Press and co-authored with Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning. He is currently working (with Chris Adam) on the development of a class of computable general equilibrium models which permits the integrated analysis of structural change and macroeconomic policy. He is also working on topics in optimal taxation

 

Publications

  • "The Budget and Medium-Term Expenditure Framework in Uganda", World Bank Africa Region Working Paper Series Number 24, 2001.
  • "Fiscal Policy Design in Low-Income Countries", with C S Adam, UNU/WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2001/67.
  • "The Fiscal Dimensions of Ethiopia's Transition and Reconstruction", UNU/WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2001/56.
  • "Exchange Rate Regimes and Revenue Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa", with C S Adam and G Chambas, Journal of Development Economics, Vol 64 no.1, 2001.
  • "The Cash Budget as a Restraint: The Experience of Zambia", with C S Adam, in P Collier and C Pattillo (eds), Investment and Risk in Africa, Macmillan, 2000.
  • Trade and Fiscal Adjustment in Africa, (eds David Bevan, Paul Collier, Norman Gemmell and David Greenaway), Macmillan, 2000. Includes a joint introductory chapter, and a chapter by myself on "Fiscal Implications of Trade Liberalization".
  • "Anatomy of a Temporary Trade Shock: the The Kenyan Coffee Boom of 1976-79", with P Collier and J W Gunning, in P Collier, J W Gunning (eds), Trade Shocks in Developing Countries, Volume 1: Africa, Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • "Trade Liberalization and the Budget Deficit", Journal of Policy Modelling, Vol 21 no.6, 1999.
  • "The Macroeconomics of the Transition from African Socialism", with P Collier, in Jo Ann Paulson (ed) African Economies in Transition, Vol 1 The Changing Role of the State, Macmillan, 1999.
  • The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Nigeria and Indonesia,  (with P Collier and J W Gunning), Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1999.
  • "Effets de Portefeuille, Marches Financiers et Modeles EGC dans les Pays en Voie de Developpement" (Portfolio Effects, Asset Markets and CGE Models for Developing Countries), (with Chris Adam), Revue d'Economie du Développement, Vol 6, no.3-4 1998.
  • Edited, with Introduction, (with F M Mwega), "The Political Economy and Effects of Macroeconomic Policies" supplement to Journal of African Economies, Vol 6, No 3, 1997.
  • "Growth and Equity in Nigeria and Indonesia" (with P Collier and J W Gunning) in R H Myers (ed) The Wealth of Nations in the Twentieth Century, Hoover Press, Stanford, 1996.
  • "Fiscal Implications of Trade Liberalization", IMF Working Paper, 95/50, 1995.
  • "Fiscal Aspects of the Transition from War to Peace: with illustrations from Uganda and Ethiopia" with S Pradhan, chapter 7, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper no 1392, 1994.
  • "Economic Aspects of the Ethiopian Transition to Peace", also in World Bank PRWP no 1392, 1994 (chapter 8).
  • "Government Policies and Agricultural Performance: Tanzania and Kenya", (with P Collier and J W Gunning), in I Goldin (ed) Economic Reform, Trade and Agricultural Development, Macmillan for the OECD, 1993.
  • "Nigeria: Policy Responses to Shocks 1970-90" (with P Collier and J W Gunning), ICEG, San Francisco, 1993.
  • "Public Policy towards External Shocks in Developing Countries" (with P Collier and J W Gunning), European Economic Review, Vol 37 (2/3) 1993.
  • Agriculture and the Policy Environment: Tanzania and Kenya (with P Collier and J W Gunning), OECD Development Centre, Paris, 1993.
  • "La Politique Economique Face aux Chocs Externes dans les Pays en Developpement" (with P Collier and J W Gunning), Revue d'Ecomomie du Développement, Vol 1, No 1, 1993.
  • "Anatomy of an External Shock: the Kenyan Coffee Boom" (with P Collier and J W Gunning), Journal of African Economies, Vol 1, No 2, 1992
  • "Consequences of External Shocks in African-Type Economies" (with P Collier and J W Gunning) in C Milner and A J Rayner (eds) Policy Adjustment in Africa, Macmillan 1992.
  • "The Macroeconomics of External Shocks" (with P Collier and J W Gunning) in V Balusubramanian and S Lall (eds) Current Issues in Development Economics, Macmillan, 1991
  • "Income and Substitution Effects in Models of Peasant Supply Response Under Rationing" (with P Collier and J W Gunning), Oxford Economic Papers, Vol 43, No 2, 1991
  • "On the Persistence of Shortages in Rural Black Markets" (with P Collier and J W Gunning) in M Roemer and C Jones (eds) Markets in Developing Countries, ICS for ICEG, 1991
  • Controlled Open Economies: a Neo-Classical Approach to Structuralism (with P Collier and J W Gunning), Oxford University Press, 1990 (Paperback 1994).
  • "Economic Policy in Countries Prone to Temporary Trade Shocks"  (with P Collier and J W Gunning), in Public Policy and Economic Development, M FG Scott and D Lal (eds), Oxford University Press, 1990
  • "Supply Response under Goods Market Rationing in Tanzanian Peasant Agriculture" (with P Collier and P Horsnell) in J P Azam et al, The Supply of Manufactured Goods and Agricultural Development, OECD, Paris, 1989
  • "Fiscal Response to a Temporary Trade Shock: the Aftermath of the Kenyan Coffee Boom" (with P Collier and J W Gunning), World Bank Economic Review, September, 1989
  • Peasants and Governments: an Economic Analysis (with P Collier and J W Gunning), Oxford University Press, 1989
  • "Black Markets: Illegality, Information and Rents" (with P Collier and J W Gunning), World Development, Special Issue on Parallel Markets in Developing Countries, Vol 17, No 12, 1989
  • "Consequences of a Commodity Boom in a Controlled Economy: Accumulation and Redistribution in Kenya, 1975-83" (with P Collier and J W Gunning), World Bank Economic Review, Vol 1, No 3, 1987
  • "Incomes in the United Republic of Tanzania during the "Nyerere Experiment"" (with A Bigsten, P Collier and J W Gunning), in W van Ginneken (ed), Trends in Employment and Labour Incomes, ILO, 1987
  • East African Lessons on Economic Liberalization (with A Bigsten, P Collier and J W Gunning), Gower for the Trade Policy Research Centre, 1987
  • "Peasant Supply Response in Rationed Economies" (with A Bigsten, P Collier and J W Gunning), World Development, Vol 15, No 4, 1987