William Richard Cline (born 1941) is an American economist and a Senior Fellow at the

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. He graduated from

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in 1963 and received a PhD in 1969 from

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, and was deputy director of development and trade research at the office of the assistant secretary for international affairs at the

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from 1971 to 1973. He worked at the

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from 1973 to 1981. He has been a senior fellow at the

since 1981, with a joint appointment at the

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. He was deputy managing director and chief economist of the

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from 1996 to 2001. He has written, edited and published a large number of papers. His research topics include

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flows, Debt Relief, the Environment, Finance, International Financial Institutions, Trade and Development, and the

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and Climate change and agriculture.

Selected works

* ''The Economics of Global Warming'' (1992) by William R. Cline

References

External links

William Cline's page at the centre for global development
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cline, William R. 1941 births Living people 21st-century American economists Princeton University alumni Peterson Institute for International Economics