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William McGreevey

William McGreevey

American economist

William Paul McGreevey (born April 13, 1938) is an economist focused on health care and development. He serves as associate professor in the Department of International Health at Georgetown University,[1] where he teaches on the political economy of health and development. As a consulting economist, he provides services on international development and health issues to UNAIDS and its ten co-sponsors, the World Bank, Palladium International (formerly branded Futures Group and Futures Institute), RUSH Foundation and Copenhagen Consensus, and Results for Development Institute.

In 1960, McGreevey graduated cum laude with a BA in economics from Ohio State University, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.[2] He earned a PhD in economics from MIT in 1965.[2] He later published his revised dissertation with Cambridge University Press (CUP) in 1971 as An economic history of Colombia, 1845-1930.[3][4][5][6][7] It was reissued in 2007 as a paperback by CUP. A new Spanish edition is planned for publication by Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.

McGreevey's subsequent work focuses on strengthening health systems in developing countries; a chapter, "Strengthening health systems", appears in Bjorn Lomborg, ed., Rethink HIV. In 2010 he prepared reports for DfID and the Global Fund on resource requirements for HIV and AIDS in People’s Republic of China; for Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme on benefits and costs of covering reproductive health services; UNAIDS and Futures Institute for resource requirements in the Latin America and Asia regions; and, aids2031 for a comprehensive report on future resource needs through the year 2031. At the World Bank from 1980 to 1997, he worked on poverty and living standards, urban, health, nutrition, and population projects, and managed training for Bank staff in these areas. In 1980, he edited the collection Third world poverty, new strategies for measuring development progress.[8][9][10] As of 2018, his research has an h-index of 19.[11]

He now serves as sector chair for the HNP sector[citation needed] and member of the board of directors of the 1818 Society for World Bank retirees.[12] He was chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and taught economic history at University of California, Berkeley[13] in the 1960s. He came to Washington, DC in 1971 where he has worked at the OAS, Smithsonian Institution,[14] Battelle Memorial Institute, World Bank, Futures Group, and Georgetown University.

Personal life

In 1983, McGreevey married to Shaun Elaine Murphy, director of the Urban Institute Press. For both it is their second marriage.[2]

Selected publications

References

  1. [1]
    "International Health Faculty". nhs.georgetown.edu. Georgetown University. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  2. [2]
    "Shaun Murphy Weds W. P. McGreevey". The New York Times. May 15, 1983. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  3. [3]
    Lee, Woodward, Ralph (December 1974). "William Paul Mcgreevey. <italic>An Economic History of Colombia, 1845–1930.</italic> (Cambridge Latin American Studies, number 9.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1971. Pp. xiv, 330. $10.95". The American Historical Review. 79 (5). doi:10.1086/ahr/79.5.1680. ISSN 1937-5239.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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    Wurfel, Seymour W. (July 1974). "An Economic History of Colombia, 1845-1930. William Paul McGreevey". Economic Development and Cultural Change. 22 (4): 713–721. doi:10.1086/450759. ISSN 0013-0079.
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    Wolff, Richard D. (1972). "An Economic History of Colombia, 1845–1930. By William Paul McGreevey. Cambridge: The University Press, 1971. Pp. xiv, 330. $10.95". The Journal of Economic History. 32 (4): 998–1000. doi:10.1017/S0022050700071515. S2CID 155033002.
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    Mount, Graeme S. (December 1972). "An Economic History of Colombia, 1845-1930, by William Paul McGreevey. Cambridge University Press, London, 1971. In Canada: Macmillan Company of Canada, Toronto. 321 pp". Canadian Journal of History. 7 (3): 302–303. doi:10.3138/cjh.7.3.302. ISSN 0008-4107.
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    Street, James H. (1972). "Review of An Economic History of Colombia, 1845-1930". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 52 (2): 310–312. doi:10.2307/2512449. JSTOR 2512449.
  8. [8]
    Honadle, George; Walker, S. Tjip (January 1983). "Third-world poverty: New strategies for measuring development progress Edited by William Paul McGreevey Lexington Books, Lexington Massachusetts and Toronto, 1980, 215 pp". Public Administration and Development. 3 (1): 77–78. doi:10.1002/pad.4230030112. ISSN 0271-2075.
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    López, Silvana Levi de (May 1, 1982). "McGreevey, William Paul (Ed.), "Third-World Poverty: New Strategies for Measuring Development Progress" (Book Review)". Third World Planning Review. 4 (2): 2. doi:10.3828/twpr.4.2.1kv867121p34hx05 – via Proquest.
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    H, Cahn, Roger (1981). "William Paul McGreevey (éd.), Third World Poverty. New Strategies for measuring development progress". Revue Tiers Monde (in French). 22 (87).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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    "William McGreevey - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  12. [12]
    "About the 1818 Society | The 1818 Society". www.wbgalumni.org. Retrieved 2018-08-24.
  13. [13]
    Maddison, Angus (2013-10-16). Economic Progress and Policy in Developing Countries. Routledge. p. 297. ISBN 9781134545117. W.P. McGreevey of the University of California at Berkeley
  14. [14]
    McGreevey, William Paul (1974). "Recent Materials and Opportunities for Quantitative Research in Latin American History: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". Latin American Research Review. 9 (2): 73–82. doi:10.1017/S0023879100026212. JSTOR 2502723. S2CID 253144281. William Paul McGreevey, The Smithsonian Institution
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