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Blane David Lewis
		Associate Professor PhD (Urban Economics), Cornell University Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore 469C Bukit Timah Road Singapore 259772 DID: (65) 6516 5830 Fax: (65) 6779 1020 Email: Blane Lewis— CV

Courses:

PP5312 Public Financial Management
PP5504 Public Finance and Budgeting

Media Expertise:

Indonesia
Fiscal Decentralization

Profile:

Dr. Lewis has 25 years experience in policy research, advising, and consulting in developing countries. He has worked in over a dozen countries across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. Before becoming engaged in policy work full time, Dr. Lewis taught for several years at Cornell University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in urban economics.

For the past 15 years Dr. Lewis worked as a policy adviser in Indonesia, focusing on issues related to public sector decentralization. His most recent position was senior economist for the World Bank and he also worked for several years as a senior adviser with the Harvard Institute for International Development. Dr. Lewis has published widely in academic journals on issues related to urban economics, public finance, and fiscal decentralization.

Recent Academic Publications:

“A Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Primary Education in Indonesia: Do Schools Need More Money?” (with Daan Pattinasarany) Education Economics, forthcoming.
“Incorporating Sub-National Performance Incentives in the Indonesian Intergovernmental Framework,” (with Paul Smoke) National Tax Association Proceedings, 101st Conference on Taxation, forthcoming, November 2009.
“The Impact of Decentralization on Sub-National Government Fiscal Slack in Indonesia,” (with Andre Oosterman) Public Budgeting & Finance, vol. 29, no. 2, 2009.
“Determining Citizen Satisfaction with Local Public Education in Indonesia: The Significance of Actual Service Quality and Governance Conditions,” (with Daan Pattinasarany) Growth and Change, vol. 40, no. 1, 2009.
“Local Tax Effects on the Business Climate,” (with Bambang Suharnoko) in Neil McCulloch (ed.), Rural Investment Climate in Indonesia, Institute for South East Asian Studies, 2009.