Dane P. Rowlands

 B.A. (Carleton), M.A. Ph.D. (Toronto)

Full Professor (International Affairs)

Office: 1426 Dunton, 613-520-2600 x 8884

E-mail: dane_rowlands [at] carleton [dot] ca




Research fields: international finance, international development, international relations

Expertise:
• international financial institutions
• development finance
• civil conflict in developing countries
• international migration
• peacekeeping and conflict intervention

Selected publications:

“Explaining IMF Programs: Are Capital Account Crisis Countries Different?” (with Graham Bird), Journal of International Development, forthcoming.

“The IMF’s Role in Mobilizing Capital Flows: Are There Grounds for Catalytic Conversion?” (with Graham Bird), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 16, No. 17 (10 November 2009), pp. 1705–1708.

“The IMF and the Mobilisation of Foreign Aid” (with Graham Bird), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 43, No. 5 (July 2007), pp. 856–870.

“IMF Quotas: Constructing an International Organization using Inferior Building Blocks” (with Graham Bird), Review of International Organizations, Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 153–171.

“New Lending to Less Developed Countries: The Effect of the IMF,” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, Special Issue: Part 2 (April 1996), pp. S443–S447.

Short biography:

Dane Rowlands received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Toronto and his academic appointment at Carleton University in 1994. His primary research interests are in international development finance and the International Monetary Fund, conflict management, and international migration. He has authored or co-authored over twenty-five articles published in various academic journals including the Journal of International Economics, the Review of International Economics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Development Studies and World Development, as well as several book chapters. He is also a research fellow at the Surrey Centre for International Economic Studies.