John Serieux

• ECON 3394 - Development Economics: Problems and Policies
• ECON 4430 - Theories of Economic Development
• ECON 7130 - Advanced Development Economics
• ECON 7140 - Topics in Development Economics
• ECON 7640 - International Money and Finance

After completing my doctorate in Economics, I worked for two years as a Lecturer at the University of Malawi for two years (1996-98), teaching Microeconomics and Development Economics to Masters's Degree students. After returning to Canada, I worked as a Researcher/Senior Researcher with the North-South Institute in Ottawa from 1999 to 2001. My primary task was addressing issues relating to the debt problems of developing countries. I returned to academia as a Lecturer in Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2002 to 2004 and then to the University of Manitoba, Department of Economics, where I have been since. From 2002 to 2005, I was a Research Associate at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. Since 2001, I have worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat and various United Nations agencies as a Research Consultant on a variety of projects.

• PhD (Economics), University of Toronto, 1997
• MA (Economics), University of Toronto, 1988
• MRP (City and Regional Planning), Cornell University, 1986
• BA (Economics), University of Toronto, 1981

Research interests

• The implication and impacts of financial flows to developing countries
• The regional and global impacts of the BRICS group of countries
• The links between the slave economies of the Atlantic and the British Industrial Revolution

• Fries, Christopher J., Serieux, John and Oranye, Nelson (2023). "A salutary welcome: the role of Sense of Coherence and Generalized Resistance Resources in refugee settlement." International Journal of Migration, health and Social Care, (in press). DOI: 10.1108/IJMHSC-07-2022-0070
• Sarker, Bibhuti and Serieux, John (2023). "Multilevel determinants of FDI: A regional comparative analysis." Economic Systems, 47(3). DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2023.101095.
• Zhao, Jun and Serieux, John (2020). "Economic globalization and regional income convergence: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean." World development perspectives, 17: 100176. DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.2020.100176
• Koth, Karl and Serieux, John (2019). "Sugar, Slavery and Wealth: Jamaica Planter Nathaniel Phillips and the Williams Hypothesis." Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, 1(1), 59-91. DOI: 10.1353/cap.2019.0005
• Zhao, Jun and Serieux, John (2019). "Globalization, regionalization and convergence in East Asia." The journal of international trade & economic development, 28 (4): 486-507. DOI: 10.1080/09638199.2018.1550801
• Serieux, John (2018). "Aid and Debt: The African Experience." In T. Binns, K. Lynch and E. Nel (Eds.) Handbook of African Development (pp.327-340). London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
• Serieux, John et. al. "The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on HIV and AIDS Programs in a High Prevalence Country: The Case of Malawi," World Development, 40(3): 501-515.
• John Serieux (2011). "Aid and resource mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of reverse flows," Journal of Development Studies, 47(7): 1080-1107.
• Berry, Albert and Serieux, John (2006). "World Economic Growth and Income Distribution, 1980-2000." In Jomo K. Sundaram and Jacques Baudot eds. Flat World, Big Gaps: Economic Liberalization, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality. New York: United Nations Economic and Social Affairs.
• "Debt of the Poorest Countries: Anatomy of a Crisis Kept on Hold (2001)." The Canadian Journal of Development Studies, XX (2), 305-342.
• "The Debt Service Burden and Growth: Evidence from Low-Income Countries." Ottawa: The North-South Institute (2001).