James K. Boyce received his Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University. He is the author of Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality After Civil Wars (Oxford University Press 2002), The Political Economy of the Environment (Edward Elgar 2002), The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era (Macmillan 1993), and Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change (Oxford University Press 1987), and co-author of A Quiet Violence: View From a Bangladesh Village (with Betsy Hartmann, Zed Press 1983). He is the co-editor of Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership (with Barry Shelley, Island Press 2003) and editor of Economic Policy for Building Peace: The Lessons of El Salvador (Lynne Rienner 1996). Professor Boyce's current work focuses on strategies for combining poverty reduction with environmental protection, and on the relationship between economic policies and issues of war and peace.
Articles
Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries: Updated Estimates, 1970 - 2010 (with Léonce Ndikumana), PERI Working Papers (2012)
The performance of Sub-Saharan African economies over the past decade has inspired optimism on the...
Comment on Khan, Li and Weisbrot (Thomas Weisskopf Festschrift Conference Paper), PERI Working Papers (2012)
Boyce comments on Shahrukh Khan's " The Military and Economic Development in Pakistan, Minqi Li's...
Capital Flight from North African Countries (with Léonce Ndikumana), PERI Working Papers (2012)
Ndikumana and Boyce demonstrate that, while the countries of North Africa have achieved high levels...
Cooling the Planet, Clearing the Air: Climate Policy, Carbon Pricing, and Co-Benefits (with Manuel Pastor), PERI Working Papers (2012)
Policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can yield substantial co-benefits via reduced emissions of co-pollutants...
Reflections on Development Economics: An Interview with Keith Griffin, PERI Working Papers (2011)
In an interview conducted by James Boyce for the journal Development and Change, Keith Griffin...
Other
Economic Inequality and Environmental Quality: Evidence of Pollution Shifting in Russia (with Marina S. Vornovytskyy.), PERI Working Papers (2010)
This paper utilizes the Russian Statistical Agency's data on air pollution in Russia to analyze...
Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks? (with Michael Ash, Grace Chang, and Helen Scharber), Economics Department Working Paper Series (2010)
This paper examines spatial variations in exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial facilities in...
Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance (with Michael Ash), PERI Working Papers (2009)
Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in e orts to promote...
Keeping the Government Whole: The Impact of a Cap-and-Dividend Policy for Curbing Global Warming on Government Revenue and Expenditure (with Matthew Riddle), PERI Working Papers (2008)
When the United States puts a cap on carbon emissions as part of the effort...