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Manuel F. Montes

Chief, Policy Analysis and Development

United Nations Financing for Development Office

2 UN Plaza, Room DC2-2150 New York, NY 10017 USA Phone: (917) 367-3087 montes@un.org

Manuel F. Montes (“Butch”) is Chief, Policy Analysis and Development Branch at Financing for Development Office of UNDESA. Immediately before this, he was Regional Programme Coordinator, Asia Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative, UNDP Regional Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka, an initiative that seeks to assist developing countries in Asia Pacific incorporate poverty reduction objectives in their trade policies and negotiations. His previous posts were: Programme Officer for International Economic Policy at the Ford Foundation in New York, 1999-2005; Senior Fellow and Coordinator for economics studies at the East-West Centre in Honolulu, 1989-1999; and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of The Philippines, 1981-1989. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Developing Economies in Tokyo, at the United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/IWDER) in Helsinki, and at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS). His most recent publication is Poverty and Well-Being in Asia during the Transition (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003). Butch holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. He held the Central Bank Money and Banking Chair at the University of the Philippines from 1984 to 1991.

Focus: Development, Economy, Finance, Jobs, Poverty, Trade

Related Resources:

• Shaping the Change (Briefings)
• Las Américas en una Encrucijada: Hacia la Reinserción del Trabajo Digno en la Agenda del Desarrollo (Policy Library)
• As Américas em uma Encruzilhada: Repor o Trabalho Decente na Agenda do Desenvolvimento (Policy Library)
• The Americas at a Crossroads: Putting Decent Work Back on the Development Agenda (Policy Library)

Selected Publications:

"Structural Adjustment Program after Structural Adjustment Program, but Why Still no Development in the Philippines?" with Joseph Lim, in Asian Economic Papers, Volume 1, Issue 3, Summer 2002 (Ford Foundation & MIT Press).

"Re-thinking Development Economics," UNRISD Project Paper, 2001

"The Asian Crisis Turns Global" with Vladimir Popov, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), 1999

"Poverty, Income Distribution and Well-being in Asia During the Transition," with Dr. Aigo Lu, Palgrave Editions, May 2002

Language Fluency:

English

Last Updated: Nov 14, 2006