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Ida Greaves: A Pioneer Development Economist

Ida Greaves: A Pioneer Development Economist

Ingham, Barbara

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Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

Biographies GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1032494409
ISBN13: 9781032494401
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 30 2025
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the missing female voices of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears.

The biography covers her early years in Barbados, her time at boarding school in England, at McGill University in Canada where she focused on human behaviour under the influence of changing social and political histories and also published an early path-breaking study of black migrants into Canada, and her later research at Harvard and Columbia in the United States and at the London School of Economics. Individual chapters follow her career acting as economic adviser to the Colonial Office in London, where she worked alongside Arthur Lewis, and at the fledgling United Nations in New York. She published in top journals and produced an outstanding study of the influence of colonial monetary systems on poor countries.

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