PERSONAL VITA
NAME: Melvin Burke
ADDRESS: 1096 Main Road, Milford, Maine, 04461
Home Telephone: (207) 827-1219
Business Telephone: (207) 581-1853
E-mail: mburke@maine.edu
ACADEMIC DEGREES: Ph.D. Economics, 1967, University of Pittsburgh
M.A. Economics, 1962, Wayne State University
B.S. Economics, 1960, Wayne State University
ACADEMIC AWARDS:
Partners of the Americas Education Grant to disseminate economic/environmental data, Natal, Brazil, 1991.
Partners of the Americas Visiting Scholar, Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, May, 1988 and March, 1990.
Fulbright American Republics’ Research Grant to investigate the foreign debt of Mexico, 1985.
Inter-American Foundation Grant to research the Bolivian national Mining Corporation (COMIBOL), June, 1982
Senior Fulbright-Hayes Scholar, Universidad Autonomia de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico, 1977.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Professor, University of Maine, 1966-present
Visiting Professor, La Universidad Privada "Franz Tamayo", La Paz, Bolivia, 1997
Lecturer, United States International University—Europe, London, England, 1985-86.
Rutgers University Professor, Univesidad de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia, 1972-73.
Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, 1966.
CONSULTING:
Barents Group, LLC, Fiscal Policy Reform—Krygyzstan, March, 1995.
Maine Division of Community Service, Energy Project Evaluation and Design, 1988-89.
National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, USAID, Honduras, November, 1987 (Privatization).
Utah State University, USAID, Dominican Republic, Feb.-March, 1983 (Irrigation Cost-Benefit Project Evaluation).
Practical Concepts, Inc., USAID, La Paz, Bolivia, 1980-81 (Country Project Analysis—Design, Monitoring and Evaluation).
United Nations, El Salvador, 1975-76 (Community Development Project Selection and Design).
Department of La Paz Development Corporation (CORDEPAZ), Bolivia, Jan.-July, 1973 (Project Methodology Development).
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 1968-69 (Economic Advisor).
RESEARCH:
Waste Management, State of Maine, 2003-2005
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 1991
IMF Stabilization/Structural Adjustment, Bolivia, 1990
Foreign Debt Management, Mexico, 1983-87
Cost/Benefit Project Methodology, Bolivia, 1981
Tin Mining Industrial Evaluation, Bolivia, 1982, 1987
Community Development Project Selection, El Salvador, 1975-76
PL 480 Commodity Aid ("Food for Peace"), Bolivia, 1968
Land Reform, Bolivia and Peru, 1965-66
FIELDS OF EXPERTISE:
Waste Management Economics
Project Analysis: Selection, Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
Foreign Debt Management
International Trade and Finance
Economic Development
Privatization
LANGUAGES: Spanish (Fluent), Portuguese, (Functional), French (Reading)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
"Competitive Market Socialism: A Practical Alternative for Sectors of the Cuban Economy",
Proceedings, 6th International Congress, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
August 15-18, 2001.
Visones e ilusiones del trafico de droga y la Guerra contra las drogas en el siglo XX",
Versiones de fin de siglo: Bolivia y America Latina en el Siglo XX, IFEA Plural Editors,
La Paz, Bolivia, 2001.
"NAFTA Numbers Don’t Add Up", The Humanist, Sept-Oct, Vol. 55, No. 2, March/April, 1995.
"La Economia Politica del TLC, La Crisis Global y Mexico". Integracion Financiera y TLC: Retos y Perspectivas, editors: Alicia Giron, Edgar Ortiz y Eugenia Correa, Instituto de Investigaciones economicas, UNAM, Mexico, 1993.
"The Human Costs of NAFTA", The Humanist, Sept./Oct., Vol. 53, No. 5, 1993.
"A Practical Methodology for Project Evaluation, Monitoring, and Identification", International Trade and Finance in the 1990s, International Trade and Finance Association Conference Proceedings, Vol. IV, 1991.
"Bolivia: The Politics of Cocaine", Current History, Vol. 90, No. 553, Feb. 1991.
"Private Versus Public Construction in Honduras: Issues of Economics and Ideology", Privatization and Deregulation in Global Perspectives, editors: Dennis Gayle and Jonathan Goodrich, Greenwood Press, 1990.
"Privatization in the Center and the Latin American Periphery", Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Record, Holmes and Meir Publishers, Inc., Vol. VII, 1990.
"The Beginning of the End of the IMF Game Plan", Public Administration Economics and Finance: Current Issues in the North American and Caribbean Countries, 1988-1989. CIDE & NAFTA, Mexico City, 1989.
"The Crisis in Bolivia’s Public Mining Corporation: A Legacy of the Triangular Plan", Public Enterprises, North American Economics and Finance Association & CIDE, Mexico, D.F., 1989.
"Domestic Policy Making and the Origins of the Mexican Debt Crisis", (with Edgar Ortiz), Journal of the Southwestern Society of Economics, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1986.
"El sistema de plantacion y la proletarizacion del trabajo agricola en El Salvador", Estudios Centro-Americanos, Ano XXXI, Sept./Oct., 1976.
"From National Popularism to National Corporatism", Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. IX, Spring, 1974 (with James Malloy)
"Does Food for Peace Assistance Damage the Bolivian Economy?", Inter-American Economic Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 1, Summer, 1971.
"Land Reform and its Effect upon Production and Productivity in the Lake Titicaca Region", Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 18, No. 3, April, 1970.
BOOKS:
Estudios Criticos del Neoliberalismo, Plural Editores; La Paz, Bolivia, 2001.
Establizacao e Ajuste Estrutural, Cooperativa Cultural Colecao Sala de Aula, UFRN, Natal, Brazil, 1993.
The Corporacion Minera de Bolivia (COMIBOL) and the Triangular Plan: A Study in Dependency, Latin American Issues, No. 4, 1987.
Estudios criticos de la economia boliviana, Los Amigos del Libro, La Paz, Bolivia, 1973.
Economics of Environmental Improvement. Burke, Savage, et.al., Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1973.
REPORTS:
Waste Management in Maine: The West Old Town Landfill, Testimony before the Joint
Standing Committee on Natural Resources, State of Maine Legislature, Augusta, Maine, 2005.
Report on a Study of the Maine Weatherization Assistance Program, A project evaluation submitted to the Maine Division of Community Services, 1988.
Contracting Out: A Study of the Honduran Privatization Experience, NASPA, A project evaluation submitted to the USAID, Washington, DC, December, 1987.
A Practical Methodology for Project Evaluation, A "Logical Framework" project report submitted to the USAID/Bolivia, Nov., 1981.
Micro-analisis de las comunidades rurales de El Salvador, Serie: Realidad campesina y desarrollo nacional, No. 5, Comision Nacional de Desarrollo Comunal, Proyecto ELS/73/003, PNUD/OTC, El Salvador, January, 1976.
A Socio-Economic Study of the Foster Parents Plan Program in Bolivia, Foster Parents Plan International, Warwick, RI, 1973.