Anthony Shorrocks is a notable Development Economist.
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Between January 2001 and April 2009 he was Director of UNU-WIDER. Prior to that he was Professor at the London School of Economics and before that he worked at the University of Essex. He has also had several visiting appointments in the US, Canada, Italy, and Russia.[1]
He has many publications in leading economic journals on income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty, and mobility.[2][3]
His first degree was a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Sussex. This was followed by a Masters in Economics from Brown University. He took his Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics in 1973 (being awarded the Bowley Prize in 1975).[4]
He has been elected to be a Fellow of the Econometric Society.[2]