Background
Kilby, Peter was born on May 4, 1935 in Buffalo. Son of John Homer and Katherine (Killeen) Kilby.
(This book provides a detailed study of how manufacturing ...)
This book provides a detailed study of how manufacturing and processing industries have developed in the largest country of West Africa. Three chapters devoted to import substitution examine the interaction of growing consumer demand and the market strategy objectives of foreign merchant firms which produced the sudden spurt of industrialization in the late 1950s. It is shown that conventional government promotion policies played an insignificant role in triggering industrial development. Subsequent chapters present analyses of Nigeria's processing industries, applied industrial research, labour supply and productivity, technical education, industrial relations and indigenous entrepreneurial performance. The study goes beyond questions of efficiency in allocating resources, to underlying organizational and institutional factors. Professor Kilby concludes by isolating key problems in the industrialization process and by suggesting an optimum development strategy.
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Kilby, Peter was born on May 4, 1935 in Buffalo. Son of John Homer and Katherine (Killeen) Kilby.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1957. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1967.
Economist United States Agency for International Development, Lagos, 1960-1962. Assistant professor department economics Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1965-1970. Associate professor Weselyan University, 1970-1975.
Professor Wesleyan University, since 1975, chairman department economics, 1982-1985. Consultant World Bank, since 1978, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, 1985, International Labour Office, Geneva, 1964-1977, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, since 1968, Government Malaysia, Kula Lumpur, 1973.
(This book provides a detailed study of how manufacturing ...)
Member Ciskei Commission, South Africa, 1978-1980. Member Regional School, Killingworth, Connecticut, 1977-1980, Planning and Zoning Committee, 1971-1973, International Labor Organization Mission to Tanzania, East Africa, 1977.
Married Marianne Baer, February 16, 1960. Children: Damian, Christopher, Karen.