Gordon C. McCord Special Assistant to Jeffrey Sachs Doctoral Student in Sustainable Development Academic Publications "Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment," (with Awash Teklehaimanot and Jeffrey D. Sachs), American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 77(Suppl 6), December 2007. [Download PDF] “Ending Africa’s Poverty Trap,” (with Jeffrey D. Sachs, John W. McArthur, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Margaret Kruk, Chandrika Bahadur, and Michael Faye), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1:2004. [Download PDF] “Travel Time and Monetarization in Rural Peru,” The Harvard College Economist, Vol. 2 Issue 1, Spring 2002.  Chapters in Books

"Extreme poverty," with Jeffrey D. Sachs, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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"Regional development, geography of," with Jeffrey D. Sachs, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition. Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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“Understanding African Poverty: Beyond the Washington Consensus to the Millennium Development Goals Approach,” with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Wing Thye Woo, in Africa in the World Economy: The National, Regional, and International Challenges.  Fondad: The Hague, 2005.
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Foreword (co-authored with Jeffrey D. Sachs) to Antezana, Oscar, La Reducción de la Pobreza: Un Proceso Político, Plural: La Paz, 2005.

Media Publications

"Malaria: The Cost of Making the Poor Pay," with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Awash Teklehaimanot, SciDev.net, October 31, 2005. 
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“Time for Chile’s Next Step in Economic Development,” with Jeffrey D. Sachs, Business Chile, November 2004.
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Working Papers

"Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition: Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology," with Dalton Conley and Jeffrey D. Sachs.  National Bureau of Economics Research Working Paper No. 12892.  February 2007.
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Speeches

Speech on “Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America,” Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga.  Ayacucho, Perú.  December 3, 2004.

Speech on “The United Nations in the 21st Century,” Robbins Memorial Symposium, Phillips Exeter Academy, April 2004.