Ida Greaves

A Pioneer Development Economist

Barbara Ingham

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Routledge
30 January 2025

Historiography; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism; Economic history

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

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.

This accessible biography provides unexpected insights into personalities and institutions during a critical period in late colonial history. The issues it raises of class and race, gender and inequality, poverty and unemployment, are of no less relevance today than they were in her lifetime.

By: Barbara Ingham
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 285g
ISBN: 9781032494401
ISBN 10: 1032494409
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 30 January 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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Ida Greaves

A Pioneer Development Economist

Barbara Ingham

$83.99

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