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Streeten, Paul, 1917-2019

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Personal name headingStreeten, Paul, 1917-2019
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Variant(s)Streeten, P. P., 1917-2019
Streeten, Paul Patrick, 1917-2019
Associated countryGreat Britain United States
Birth date1917-07-18
Death date2019-01-06
Place of birthAustria
Place of deathPrinceton (N.J.)
Field of activityDevelopment economics
AffiliationBoston University. Department of Economics
World Bank
Great Britain. Ministry of Overseas Development
University of Sussex
Balliol College (University of Oxford)
Profession or occupationEconomists Economics teachers
Found inMyrdal, G. Value in social theory, 1958.
His First things first, 1981: t.p. (Paul Streeten) CIP data sheet (b. 7/18/17)
Commonwealth policy in a global context, 1971: t.p. (Paul Streeten, dir., Inst. of Commonw. Studies, Oxford)
The teaching of economics in Africa, 1973: page 46 (Paul Streeten; contribution: Some comments on the teaching of economics) page 192 (P. P. Streeten, University of Oxford, U.K.)
Essays in social and economic development, c2010: t.p. (Paul Streeten) jkt. (professor emeritus of Boston University, US; his recent research has been on globalization, international interdependence, foreign investment, aid, poverty, sustainable human development; he is also interested in regional development, technology, education, the problems of small countries, methodology in the social sciences and interdisciplinary studies)
Wikipedia, viewed April 2, 2020 (Paul Patrick Streeten (18 July 1917-6 January 2019) was an Austrian-born British economics professor. He was a professor at Boston University, US until his retirement.)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Streeten#Books>
BU Arts & Sciences, Economics (website), In memoriam: Paul Streeten (1917-2019), February 20, 2019, viewed July 10, 2023 (passed away at age 101 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey; escaped from Austria to the UK at the start of World War II; studied at Balliol College Oxford, became a Fellow there in 1948; made contributions to the economic theory of industry and trade in the 1950s; his interests turned to development economics and policy from the 1960s onwards; acting Director of the Institute for Development Studies, Sussex in the late 1960s, then Warden of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, and Deputy Director General of Economic Planning, UK Ministry of Overseas Development; joined the World Bank as a senior economic advisor, working on its new program on Basic Needs; in 1972 he led the establishment of the journal World Development; joined Boston University's Department of Economics in the mid-1970s, where he remained until retirement in the mid-1980s; served initially as the department's Center for Asian Development Studies, which became the World Development Institute with Streeten as its director)
Associated languageeng