Paul Streeten
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Paul Streeten (1917- ) is a professor emeritus at Boston University. He has been a distinguished academic working on development economics since the 1950s. Since the founding of the journal World Development in 1972 has been an editor. In the 1960s he worked at new Ministry of Overseas Development in the UK and acted as the director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). He became Warden of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. During the periods 1976-1980 and 1984-1985, he worked at the World Bank and helped formulate the basic needs approach to development. Since 1990, he has been involved with both into the UNDP’s Human Development Report and UNESCO’s World Culture Reports. Paul Streeten's major works include:[1]
- Elasticity Optimism and Pessimism in International Trade, 1954,
- Economia Internazionale; Programs and Prognoses, 1954, QJE
- Growth, The Terms of Trade and the Balance of Trade, with J. Black, 1957 Economie Appliquee
- Economic Integration: Aspects and problems, 1961.
- The Frontiers of Development Studies, 1972.
- The Limits of Development Research, 1974, World Development
- Policies Towards Multinationals, 1975,World Development
- New Strategies for Development, with F. Stewart, 1976, Oxford EP
- Foreign Investment, Transnationals and Developing Countries, with S. Lall, 1977.
- Development Perspectives, 1981.
- First Things First: Meeting basic human needs in developing countries, with others, 1981.
- Approaches to a New International Economic Order, 1982, World Development
- Development Dichotomies, 1983, World Development
More recent publications include Thinking about Development and Globalisation: Threat or Opportunity? (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and a volume of essays in his honour was published in 1986, entitled Theory and Reality in Development: Essays in Honour of Paul Streeten, ed. by Sanjaya Lall and Frances Stewart. [2] [3]
