Richard E. Bilsborrow
richard_bilsborrow@unc.edu
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Richard Bilsborrow is a Fellow Emeritus at the Carolina Population Center.
Trained in Economics at Michigan (PhD) and in Demography through a postdoc at Princeton, Bilsborrow's career has been devoted to learning about the linkages between demographic processes and economic development in developing countries. This has occurred via not only teaching and research but also extensive consulting and collaboration with scholars at international organizations, including the UN Population and Statistics Divisions, the International Labour Office, Food and Agricultural Organization, World Bank, etc. Current research projects include (1) demographic and other factors influencing land-use, deforestation and implications for the environment and sustainable development, especially in the Ecuadorian Amazon, including among indigenous populations; (2) determinants and consequences of migration in developing nations and linkages with development and the environment; (3) designing and analyzing household surveys on international migration in the Arab countries of the Mediterrean Basin; and (4) effects of payments for ecosystem services on livelihoods of households in rural China. Bilsborrow has taught courses on demographic techniques and on economic development, population dynamics, and the environment, in several departments at UNC and in Latin America (in Spanish).