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Thorbecke, Erik was born on February 17, 1929 in Berlin. Son of William and Madelaine (Salisbury) Thorbecke.
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Professor Erik Thorbecke's study, here published, continues the empirical work undertaken by Folke Hilgerdt for the League of Nations. It is a study of actual trade and payments derived laboriously from the voluminous statistical data published by national governments and international institutions. The col lection, analysis and interpretation of this mass of data involved much patient industry, but in the process of brooding over the detail a truer understanding of the complex structure of world trade was gained than could be achieved in any other way. Trade of course is nearly always bilateral. When goods are re-exported they are, for the most part, refashioned and changed into essentially new utilities. What is multilateral or bilateral or regional in a system of international trade is the method of payment. The justification for multilateralism is the opportunity it affords for countries to specialize, so that one country may use the foreign exchange earned by its exports to buy imports from a third country. Indeed this statement in terms of countries obscures the ultimate realities. In a free multilateral system it is individuals who import and export. When they can freely buy and sell the foreign exchange acquired or required for their transactions, payments are multilateral and the network of trade extends widely across political boundaries. What Mr. Thorbecke shows is that political controls of pay ments have confined more trade within restricted channels.
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The formulation of a rural development strategy for any country is an extremely difficult and multi-faceted task, especially so for a country as large and diversified as Indonesia. Illustrating again how economic growth in urban areas rarely translates into a decrease in rural poverty, this volume identifies the impact of recent changes in the national economy on the rural poor, the interaction between the agricultural sector and the rural population, and patterns of food consumption, nutrition, and health. Drawing on the data and conclusions of thirteen years of IFAD experience in Indonesia, this book also examines the successes and failures of past practical recommendations for future programs. The authors highlight the need for greater employment opportunities, greater commodity and regional diversification and a special emphasis on poor rural women.
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This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics (regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex analysis, gravity and spatial interaction models, SAM and social accounting (welfare) analysis and applied general interregional equilibrium models. The coherent development of the materials contained in the set of chapters provides students with a comprehensive background and understanding of how to investigate key regional problems. For the research scholar, this publication constitutes an up-to-date source book of the basic elements of each major regional science technique. More significant, it points to new directions for future research and ways interregional and regional analytic approaches can be fused to realise much more probing attacks on regional and spatial problems - a contribution far beyond what is available in the literature.
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Thorbecke, Erik was born on February 17, 1929 in Berlin. Son of William and Madelaine (Salisbury) Thorbecke.
Student, Netherlands School of Economics, Rotterdam, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, 1957. Doctorate (honorary), University Ghent, 1981.
Assistant professor economics, Iowa State University, 1957-1960;
associate professor, Iowa State University, 1960-1963;
professor, Iowa State University, 1963-1973;
professor, Cornell Univercity, since 1974;
department chairman economics, Cornell Univercity, 1975-1978;
Higher Education Babcock professor economics and food economics, Cornell Univercity, since 1978. Economics adviser National Planning Institute, Lima, Peru, 1963-1964. Associate assistant administrator for program policy Agency for International Development, Washington, 1966-1968, member research advisory committee, 1976-1981.
Senior economist world employment program International Labor Office, Geneva, 1972-1973. Visiting professor Erasmus U., Rotterdam, 1980-1981. Member commission on international nutritional programs National Research Council-NAS, 1979-1981;director program on comparative economics development, Cornell Univercity, since 1988.
Senior research fellow United States Agency for International Development Institute Policy Reform, since 1990.
(This landmark textbook introduces students to the princip...)
( The formulation of a rural development strategy for any...)
(Professor Erik Thorbecke's study, here published, continu...)
Member American Economics Association, American Association Agricultural Economics (National award for best public research 1970).
Married Charla J. Westerberg, October 17, 1954. Children: Erik Charles, Willem, Jon.