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Griffin, Keith Broadwell was born on November 6, 1938 in Colon, Panama. Came to the United States, 1988. Son of Marcus Samuel Griffin and Elaine Ann (Broadwell) Fabick.
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Alternative strategies for economic development create great controversy and intense debate among practitioners and academics concerned with economic and social progress in the third world. The core of this book analyzes the six most widely adopted strategies of development, namely monetarism, the open economy, industrialization, the green revolution or agriculture-led development, redistributive strategies of development and socialist strategies. The strengths and weaknesses of each strategy are assessed and then compared. This book contains a blend of economic theory, statistical evidence and numerous country case studies. This second edition contains a new introduction in which the human development strategy, the transition strategies followed in the ex-socialist countries, and globalization and its effects on development are all discussed.
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"Studies in Globalization and Economic Transitions" contains twelve essays on international and national development policy since the end of the Cold War. Topics covered include a critique of foreign aid, proposals for a new framework for development cooperation and an analysis of the case for and against regulating world markets within a liberal global economy. Changes in the international environment have induced developing countries to reconsider their domestic economic policies, and hence one essay contains a review of policies concerned with employment, poverty and inequality. This is followed by essays on the transition from central planning to a more market-orientated system in China, economic restructuring in Bolivia (a coca-dependent country in Latin America), the attempted transition to socialism in Nicaragua and, finally, on economic policy during the transition in Uzbekistan (the most populous country in Central Asia). Throughout the volume the human development approach is used to illuminate some of the most pressing issues of our time. Keith Griffin is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside.
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This volume is about development policy since the end of the Cold War. One set of essays, under the heading of globalization, includes a critique of foreign aid, proposals for a new framework for development cooperation and an assessment of arguments for regulating world markets within a liberal global economy. Another set focuses on various types of economic transitions, namely, from central planning to a market oriented system, from capitalism to socialism and from an inward to an outward oriented strategy. Throughout the volume the human development approach is used to illuminate some of the major issues of our time.
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This volume is a comprehensive study of the distribution of income in China. Based on original data obtained from a purpose-designed nationwide household sample survey, the book contains studies of the overall distribution of income, inequality and poverty in rural areas and wage employment in rural industries, urban wage inequalities and the relationship between education and income. An annex describes the household sample survey. Keith Griffin is the author of "Alternative Strategies for Economic Development", "The Political Economy of Agrarian Change" and "World Hunger and the World Economy", and the editor of "Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside" and "The Economy of Ethiopia". Zhao Renwei was twice the winner, in 1984 and 1986, of one of the Sun Yehfang Awards for economic research.
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Griffin, Keith Broadwell was born on November 6, 1938 in Colon, Panama. Came to the United States, 1988. Son of Marcus Samuel Griffin and Elaine Ann (Broadwell) Fabick.
Bachelor, Williams College, 1960. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Williams College, 1980. Bachelor of Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1962.
Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1965.
Fellow and tutor in economics Magdalen College Oxford (England) University, 1965-1976, fellow Magdalen College, 1977-1979, president, 1979-1988, honorary fellow, 1988. Acting warden, director Queen Elizabeth House, Institute Commonwealth Studies, 1973, 77-78, warden, director, 1978-1979. Professor University California, Riverside, 1988—2004, chairman department economics, 1988-1993, Presidential professor, 1988-1990, Distinguished professor, 1997—2004.
Visiting professor Institute Economics and Planning University Chile, 1962-1963, 64-65. Chairman board United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1988-1995, senior consultant, 1971-1972. Member United Nations committee for development planning, 1987-1994.
Member council United Nations University, 1986-1992, chairman finance and budget committee, 1988-1990. Member Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, 1984-1988. Member World Commission on Culture and Development, 1994-1995.
Chief International Labor Organization Employment Advisory Mission to Ethiopia, 1982. Economic advisor Government of Bolivia, 1989-1991. President Development Studies Association, United Kingdom, 1978-1980.
Chief rural and urban employment policies branch International Labor Organization, 1975-1976. Consultant International Labor Organization on rural development in Ecuador, 1974. Senior adviser Organization of European Cooperation and Development Development Centre, Paris, 1986-1991.
Adviser to Inter-American Committee for Alliance for Progress on copper expansion programme in Chile, 1968, to Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations)/International Coffee Organization/International Bank for Reconstruction and Development World Coffee Study in Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia, 1967. Research advisor Pakistan Institute Development Economics, Karachi, 1965, 70. Expert on agricultural planning to Government of Algeria, acting chief Food and Agriculture Organization Mission, Algiers, 1963-1964.
Consultant International Bank for Reconstruction and Development on land reform in Morocco, 1973. Head United Nations Development Program Poverty Alleviation Mission to Mongolia, 1994. Head International Labor Organization Social Policy Review Mission to Uzbekis, 1995.
Consultant on economic reform in Vietnam, United Nations Development Programme, 1997. Head International Labor Organization Employment and Social Protection Mission to Kazakstan, 1997. Head United Nations Development Programme mission to Mongolia, 2001, Armenia, 2002.
Leader United Nations Development Programme program evaluation team in China, 2004-2005.
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Author: Underdevelopment in Spanish America, 1969, second edition, 1971, Spanish edition, 1972, The Green Revolution: An Economic Analysis, 1972, The Political Economy of Agrarian Change, 1974, second edition, 1979, Spanish edition, 1982, Hindi edition, 1983, Land Concentration and Rural Poverty, 1976, second edition, 1981, Spanish edition, 1983, International Inequality and National Poverty, 1978, Spanish edition, 1984, World Hunger and the World Economy, 1987, Alternative Strategies for Economic Development, 1989, second edition, 1999, Chinese edition, 1992, Studies in Globalization and Economic Transitions, 1996, Studies in Development Strategy and Systemic Transformation, 2000. Co-author: Comercio Internacional y Politicas de Desarrollo Economico, 1967, Planning Development, 1970, Spanish edition, 1975, The Transition to Egalitarian Development, 1981, Globalization and the Developing World, 1992, Implementing a Human Development Strategy, 1994. Editor: Financing Development in Latin America, 1971, Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside, 1984, The Economy of Ethiopia, 1992, Poverty and the Transition to a Market Economy in Mongolia, 1995, Social Policy and Economic Transformation in Uzbekistan, 1996, Economic Reform in Vietnam, 1998, Poverty Reduction in Mongolia, 2003.
Co-editor: Ensayos Sobre Planificacion, 1967, Growth and Inequality in Pakistan, 1972, The Economic Development of Bangladesh, 1974, Human Development and the International Development Strategy for the 1990s, 1990, The Distribution of Income in China, 1993, also numerous articles.
Early work on international economic issues in Latin America, industrialisation within the context of regional integration, and the role of foreign capital. The influence of the ‘structuralist’ school of thought is evident in my Underdevelopment in Spanish America as well as in the publications in Spanish I wrote about the same time. A year with the Planning Commission in Algeria stimulated an interest in planning (which resulted in Planning Development and several papers in Spanish and English), in problems of development finance (which resulted in the edited book on Financing Development in Latin America and papers on Pakistan) and in problems of rural development.
Subsequently I worked on land reform, particularly in Latin America and North Africa (and published Land Concentration and Rural Poverty), on the ‘green revolution’ in Asia and Latin America (which resulted in The Political Economy of Agrarian Change), on
trends in rural poverty in Asia (see International Labour Office, Poverty and Landlessness in Rural Asia) and on communal tenure systems (particularly in China and Ethiopa).
A period in Geneva with the International Labour Office enabled me to pursue interests in general development strategy with a focus on employment and income distribution and to participate in the drafting of the International Labour Office’s Employment, Growth and Basic Needs, a document which had much influence on thinking about economic development in the late 1970s. Short-term policy questions and roblems of economic management, owever, were largely overlooked in the original ‘basic needs’ literature and consequently I was prompted to turn my attention to The Transition to Egalitarian Development. More recently, opportunities to travel and undertake research in China have led me to concentrate my efforts on that country.
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married Dixie Beth, April 2, 1956. Children: Janice, Kimberley.