Background
Singh was born in Lahore in pre-partition India, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and economics from Punjab University in 1958.
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(Economic Crisis and Third World Agriculture: The Changing Role of Agriculture in Economic Development ) Author: Ajit Singh May-2004
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0108EABEC/?tag=2022091-20
Ajit Singh
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Ajit Singh, British Economist. Member Society for International Development World Headquarters, Rome, 1987; member panel of eminent persons advising secretary general United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, 1984. Member Royal Economics Society, American Economics Association, European Economics Association, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (chairman programme committee 1985).
Education
Bachelor, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, 1958. Master of Arts, Howard University, 1960. Master of Arts (honorary), Cambridge (England) University, 1965.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1970.
Career
One of the world"s most renowned Indian-born economists, Singh made fundamental academic contributions in the areas of modern business enterprise, de-industrialisation in advanced and emerging economies and the globalisation of financial and product markets. He obtained an Master of Arts One of his life-long friendships was with former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He had been a student of Doctor Manmohan Singh as an undergraduate at Punjab University.
Professor Singh published 17 books and monographs, and more than 200 research papers, of which nearly 100 are in refereed economic journals, including leading ones such as the Economic Journal, The Review of Economic Studies, European Economic Review, and the Journal of Economic Literature.
Most of Singh"s non-journal articles have also been peer-reviewed and included in important collections of handbooks produced by leading publishers such as Oxford University Press, or are included in books edited by Nobel Prize-winning economists such as Amartya Senator, Joseph Stiglitz and Oliver Williamson. After his mandatory retirement at the age of 67 as Professor of Economics at Cambridge, Singh was appointed Director of Research at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF).
Since then, Singh was actively engaged in the lecturing and teaching programme of the Centre for Development Studies in Cambridge. In 2011, Singh was the fifth holder of the prestigious Tun Ismail Ali Chair at the University of Malaya.
In 2012, he was appointed to the highly prestigious Chair, named after the current Indian Prime Minister, Doctor Manmohan Singh.
He has been a senior economic adviser to the governments of Mexico and Tanzania and has advised almost all of the United Nations developmental agencies, including the International Labour Organization, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. Singh was elected an Academician of the United Kingdom Academy of Social Sciences in 2004.
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Member Society for International Development World Headquarters, Rome, 1987. Member panel of eminent persons advising secretary general United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva, 1984. Member Royal Economics Society, American Economics Association, European Economics Association, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (chairman programme committee 1985).
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Pakistani -
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Sikh -
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sikh.
Education
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1958
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1960
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1965
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1970
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1965
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1987 - 1995