Frances Stewart
Encyclopedia
Frances Julia Stewart is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), University of Oxford
. A pre-eminent development economist
, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American
. She is currently president of the Human Development and Capability Association
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She is the daughter of the Cambridge economist Nicholas Kaldor
and the sister of London School of Economics
political scientist Mary Kaldor
.
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. A pre-eminent development economist
Development economics
Development Economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low-income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic growth and structural change but also on improving the potential for the mass of the population, for example,...
, she was named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American
Scientific American
Scientific American is a popular science magazine. It is notable for its long history of presenting science monthly to an educated but not necessarily scientific public, through its careful attention to the clarity of its text as well as the quality of its specially commissioned color graphics...
. She is currently president of the Human Development and Capability Association
Human Development and Capability Association
The Human Development and Capability Association was launched in September 2004 at the Fourth Capability Conference in Pavia, Italy. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen was the founding President and remained President until 2006 when Martha Nussbaum became President, succeeded by Frances Stewart in 2008...
.
She is the daughter of the Cambridge economist Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period...
and the sister of London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
political scientist Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of its Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy...
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Selected bibliography
- 1977. Technology and Underdevelopment, London: Macmillan.
- 1987. Adjustment with a Human Face, with G.A. Cornia and R. Jolly, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- 1992. North-South and South-South: Essays on International Economics, London: Macmillan
- 2001. War and Underdevelopment, 1: The Economic and Social Causes of Conflict; 2: Country Experience (with V. Fitzerald et al.), OUP: Oxford (2001)
- 2008. Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Conflict in Multiethnic Societies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan