156 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
156 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
156 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Early Education
2. The Lasting Legacy of McGill
3. Harvard, Bryn Mawr and the London School of Economics
4. Modern Production Among Backward Peoples (1935)
5: American Interlude
6. The Colonial Office and LSE
7. Colonial Monetary Conditions
8. Towards a Conclusion
Postscript: Ida Greaves: A Pioneer Development Economist?
Appendix: The Currency Board Mechanism and the Sterling Area
Biography
Barbara Ingham is an economist who has written extensively on development issues. Her research features the institutions in which development policy emerged from the 1930s onwards. She has co-authored the biography of a Caribbean economist Arthur Lewis and papers on Arthur Lewis and the Windrush Generation.
