Todd Moss

Senior Fellow
tmoss@cgdev.org

Research Topics

Education

PhD and MSc University of London, BA Tufts University

Background

Todd Moss is Senior Fellow and Director of The Emerging Africa Project. He returns to the Center after serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from May 2007 to October 2008. Todd’s work focuses on U.S.-Africa relations and financial issues facing sub-Saharan Africa, including policies that affect private capital flows, debt, and aid. He also worked on the economic crisis in Zimbabwe and led the Center's work on Nigerian debt, the African Development Bank and the IDA-15 replenishment round.

Todd originally joined the Center in July 2003 from the World Bank where he served as a consultant and advisor to the Chief Economist in the Africa Region. Prior to joining the Bank, he was a Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) in the postgraduate Development Studies Institute. Previously, Todd has worked as an Analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and was Assistant Director of U.S. Policy Programs at the Overseas Development Council (ODC). Todd is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and the author of numerous articles and books, including Adventure Capitalism: Globalization and the Political Economy of Stock Markets in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors (Lynne Rienner, 2007).

Non-CGD Publications

Books

• African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors, Lynne Rienner, 2007.
• African Emerging Markets, Contemporary Issues, Vol II, (edited with Sam Mensah), African Capital Markets Forum, Accra, 2004.
• Adventure Capitalism: Globalization and the Political Economy of Stock Markets in Africa, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.

Policy Reports:

• Strategic Framework for Assistance to Africa: IDA and the Emerging Partnership Model, with Alan Gelb, et al, Africa Region, World Bank, Washington DC, January 2004.
• The Other Costs of High Debt in Poor Countries: Growth, Policy Dynamics, and Institutions, (PDF, 211.44KB) with Hanley S. Chiang, World Bank, HIPC Unit, August 2003.
• The Partnership Imperative: Maintaining American Leadership in a New Era, with Catherine Gwin et al, Overseas Department Council, Washington DC, 1997.

Selected Journals/Chapters

• “An Aid-Institutions Paradox? Aid dependency and state building in sub-Saharan Africa,” with Nicolas van de Walle and Gunilla Pettersson, in William Easterly (ed.) Reinventing Aid, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008.
• “The Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target,” with Michael Clemens, International Journal of Development Issues, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2007.
• “Zimbabwe’s Meltdown: Anatomy of a Peacetime Economic Collapse,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 2007.
• “The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success,” with Michael Clemens and Charles Kenny, World Development, Vol. 35, No. 5, May 2007.
• “Briefing: The G8’s Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa”, African Affairs, Vol. 105, No. 419, April 2006.
• “After Mugabe: Applying Post-Conflict Recovery Lessons to Zimbabwe” (PDF, 211KB); Africa Policy Journal, Harvard University, Spring 2006, V.I.
• “Compassionate Conservatives of Conservative Compassionates? US political parties and bilateral foreign assistance to Africa”, with Markus Goldstein, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 24, No. 1, October 2005.
• “Is Africa’s Skepticism of Foreign Capital Justified? Preliminary Evidence from Firm Survey Data in East Africa”, with Vijaya Ramachandran and Manju Kedia Shah, in Magnus Blomstrom, Edward Graham, and Theodore Moran (eds), Does a Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development?, Institute of International Economics, Washington DC, May 2005.
• “Is Wealthier Really Healthier?” Foreign Policy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, March/April 2005.
• “Current issues in development assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa”, Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Forecast, Economist Intelligence Unit, London, February 2005.
• “Africa and the Battle over Agricultural Protectionism” (PDF, 329.86KB), with Alicia Bannon, World Policy Journal, New York, Vol. XXI, No. 2, Summer 2004.
• “Irrational Exuberance or Financial Foresight? The Political Logic of Stock Markets in Africa”, in Sam Mensah & Todd Moss (eds), African Emerging Markets: Contemporary Issues, Volume II, African Capital Markets Forum, Accra, 2004.
• “Stock Markets in Africa: Emerging Lions or White Elephants?” with Charles Kenny, World Development, Vol. 26, No. 5, May 1998.

• “Africa Policy Adrift,” with David Gordon, Mediterranean Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3, Summer 1996.
• “US Policy and Democratisation in Africa: The Limits of Liberal Universalism,” The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, June 1995.