Matt Winters

International Development and Globalization
Columbia University
New York, NY



Matt Winters is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science, studying international political economy and anticipating the defense of his dissertation in the spring of 2008. His dissertation, "The Impact of Domestic Political Constraints on World Bank Lending Programs," examines how differing capacities for collective action among impoverished groups affect the implementation of international development projects. The dissertation analyzes targeting performance in two World Bank programs in Indonesia and also includes analysis of an original cross-country dataset constructed from World Bank project evaluations. In 2007, Winters published an article “An Obsolescing Bargain in Chad: Explaining Shifts in Leverage between the Government and the World Bank” (with John Gould) in Business and Politics and an article “Market Access or Efficient Production: Why Did South Korean Outward Direct Investment Persist After the Crisis?” in Asian Business and Management. In 2005, Winters was a summer intern at the World Bank, where he worked on a project related to clientelism and the formation of political parties. He also published a chapter in 2004 on “Inter-Korean Economic Relations” (with Samuel S. Kim).

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