Howard Stein

• Development Economist and Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan

Howard Stein is a development economist educated in Canada, the US and the UK who has taught in both Asia and Africa. He is the editor or author of more than a dozen books and edited collections and more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and reviews. His research on Africa has focused on foreign aid, finance, structural adjustment and neoliberalism, RCTs, health, gender and development, health and the environment, institutional transformation, industrial policy, export processing zones and other industrial parks, agricultural policy, poverty and rural property right transformation, income inequality and Chinese investment in manufacturing. He teaches a variety of courses in DAAS and Epidemiology including the history of African economic development, Africa and post-war development theory and policy, globalization and African health, the political economy of African development and health and socio-economic development.

While on sabbatical in 2025/26 he is Visiting Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Visiting Researcher at the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, both in Waterloo, Canada.

• –present Development Economist and Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan

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