Udaya Wagle-- Alumni Speaker Event

The Public Policy Forum welcomes a distinguished alumnus for a guest lecture.

Dr. Udaya Waglé

Thursday, March 6

4-5:30pm

PPOL Classroom (M3-415)

"Changes in and Characteristics of Working Poverty in the FinanciallyStruggling Economy of Michigan: 1998 and 2007"

About Dr. Waglé:

Udaya Waglé is an alumnus of the Public Policy Program at UMass Boston(Ph.D. 2004). Since 2005, he has been teaching as assistant professor in theSchool of Public Affairs and Administration at Western Michigan University,Kalamazoo, MI, which offers MPA and Ph.D. in public Administration degrees. Prior to this, he completed one year of visiting professorship at the Schoolof Management at Marist College, NY. The Public Policy Program awarded him the Academic Excellence Award in 2005.

Dr. Waglé's research focuses on inequality, poverty, policymaking, and globalization, with ongoing research in Nepal, the US, and high income OECD countries. While in the Public Policy Program, his dissertation tackled thetheoretical and operational issues of multidimensional poverty measurement using large survey data from Kathmandu, Nepal. He has established an exemplary record of research and publication with his research spanning both developing and advanced countries. He has authored over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals including International Political Science Review, International Social Journal, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal ofHuman Development, Policy Sciences, Review of Social Economy, Social Science Journal, Social Science Research, South Asia, and World Development. His book Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Concepts and Applications is forthcoming (April 2008) from Springer.

More info on his research interests can be found here.