Richard E. Bilsborrow
Ph.D., Research Professor, Biostatistics
Dr. Bilsborrow's Curriculum Vitae
CPC Office: 305-E Univ Sq East
CPC Phone Number: (919) 966-1738
Email: richard_bilsborrow@unc.edu
Richard Bilsborrow is an economist-demographer with extensive experience in economic development and population issues in developing countries. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Certificate in Demography from Princeton University where he was a postdoc. His recent research has focused on the linkages among demographic processes, development, and the environment, and on internal and international migration. In 1997-98 he was a Hofstee Fellow at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute in The Hague. He has consulted widely with governments of developing countries, United Nations agencies and environmental organizations on population, international migration, development (including poverty measurement and alleviation), and environmental issues, and contributed bibliography and case studies to the International Conference on Population and Development (1994) and the World Summit in Johannesburg (2002). Current research focuses on: (1) demographic and other factors influencing land-use and deforestation and implications for the environment and sustainable development, notably in the Ecuadorian Amazon; (2) determinants and consequences of internal migration in developing nations, and linkages with development and the environment; and (3) methodological aspects of conducting and analyzing surveys on international migration. Bilsborrow teaches courses on demographic techniques and on Third World economic development, population dynamics, and the environment.
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