Sir Hans Singer

1. Front Matter

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2. The Early Years (1910–47)

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Growing Up in the Rhineland, Germany

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 3-4

   3. Bonn University: The Influence of Schumpeter and Spiethoff

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 5-11

   4. Keynes and the Cambridge Economics School

      • D. John Shaw

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   5. Early Employment and Experience

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 20-36

3. Service in the United Nations (1947–69)

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Initiation: A Case of Mistaken Identity

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 39-43

   3. The Economist as Adviser in an International Organization

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 44-48

   4. Distribution of Gains from Trade and Investment: The Terms of Trade Controversy1

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 49-71

   5. Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development (SUNFED)

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 72-90

   6. Pre-investment and the UN Special Fund

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 91-93

   7. Technical Assistance

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 94-97

   8. Multilateral Food Aid

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 98-102

   9. First UN Decade of Development

      • D. John Shaw

      Pages 103-106

   10. UN Research Institute for Social Development

       • D. John Shaw

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   11. Assignments Outside New York

       • D. John Shaw

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   12. Academic Activities While at the United Nations

       • D. John Shaw

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4. The Later Years (1969–2001)

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   2. Work at IDS

      • D. John Shaw

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This is the first biography of a world-famous pioneering development economist, Sir Hans W. Singer, who is better known throughout the developing world than any other economist, living or dead. It gives a detailed account of the way in which the 'twists of fate' led him to becoming a leading development economist. It contains a thematic synthesis of all his major theoretical and conceptual work and of the many initiatives in which he has been involved to solve the problems of developing countries.

• Bretton Woods
• Developing Countries
• development
• development aid
• development studies
• economic development
• trade

'No economist of the twentieth-century has been so persistent in focusing on the problems of developing countries - and so creative in exploring what can be done to accelerate their development. It is a remarkable story, the life and ideas of an intellectual giant John Shaw has performed a great service by documenting the record of Hans Singer's achievements, with attention to his writings and intellectual contributions over the whole of his life - from his early training at the feet of Schumpter and Keynes, his pioneering work in the early years of the United Nations, to the final phase of his career at the Institute of Development at the University of Sussex. Over time, Singer's imagination and writings have been honed to a new sharpness by outrage at increasing inequality in the era of globalization'. - Sir Richard Jolly, Senior Research Fellow, City University of New York's Graduate Centre and co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project

'This is more than the life-story of Britain's most highly respected and most-loved development economist: John Shaw's comprehensive narrative amounts to a history of development thinking over seven decades'. - Simon Maxwell, Director of the Overseas Development Institute, London

D. JOHN SHAW has known and worked with Hans W. Singer for many years. He was associated with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) for over thirty years, latterly as Economic Adviser and Chief of WFP's Policy Affairs Service. He also served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He is currently on the International Editorial Board of the journal Food Policy and has written extensively on development and food aid issues. Among his publications are International Development Co-operation: Selected Essays by Hans W. Singer on Aid and The United Nations System: The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid (Palgrave 2001).

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