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Appropriate technology; basic needs; adjustment and poverty; development during conflict; group behaviour; horizontal inequalities; human development.
Frances Stewart
Professor Emeritus of Development Economics
Frances Stewart was Director of ODID from 1993-2003 and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the department between 2003 and 2010. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex
Among many publications, she is coauthor of UNICEF’s influential study, Adjustment with a Human Face (OUP 1987); War and Underdevelopment (OUP 2001); and leading author and editor of Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies (Palgrave, 2008). She has directed a number of major research programmes including several financed by the UK Government’s Department for International Development, and others by the Swedish Development Agency and the Carnegie Corporation
An Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, Frances has acted as consultant for early Human Development Reports; she has been President of the Human Development and Capability Association; President of the British and Irish Development Studies Association; Chair of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy and Vice-Chair of the Board of the International Food Policy Research Institute
She received the Leontief prize in 2013 for advancing the frontiers of economic thought from Tufts University. She was given the UNDP’s Mahbub ul Haq award for her lifetime’s achievements in promoting human development in 2009; and named one of fifty outstanding technological leaders for 2003 by Scientific American (Policy Leader in Economic Development Strategies for promoting anti-poverty campaigns to help quell armed conflicts in developing countries).
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Books and monographs( ) Affirmative Action in Plural Societies: International Experiences . , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan( ) Horizontal Inequalities and Post-conflict Development . , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan( ) Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multethnic Societies . , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan( ) Post-conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity . , New York: UNDP( ) Defining Poverty in the Developing World . , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan( ) Globalization, Violent Conflict and Self-Determination . , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan( ) War and Underdevelopment (Volume 1: The Economic and Social Consequences of Conflict; Volume 2: Country Experiences) . , Oxford: OUP pps 267/312( ) War, Hunger, and Displacement: The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies (Volume 1: Analysis, Volume 2: Case Studies) . , Oxford: OUP( ) Conflict and Economic Growth in Africa: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda . , Paris: OECD( ) Global Development Fifty Years After Bretton Woods, Essays in Honour of G K Helleiner . , Macmillan( ) Adjustment and Poverty: Options and Choices . , Routledge pp 243
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Journal articles and special issues( ) ODS 2018 Annual Lecture: The Human Development Approach: An Overview . Oxford Development Studies( ) Horizontal Inequalities: Two Types of Trap . Journal of Human Development 10 (3) 315-40( ) Human Development: Beyond the Human Development Index . Journal of Human Development 7(3) 323-58( ) Groups and Capabilities . Journal of Human Development 6(2) 185-204( ) Does It Matter That We Don't Agree on the Definition of Poverty? A Comparison of Four Approaches . Oxford Development Studies 31(3) 243-74( ) The Real Causes of Inequality . Challenge 43 (1) 44-93( ) Strategies for Success in Human Development . Journal of Human Development 1 (1) 49-70( ) Crisis Prevention: Tackling Horizontal Inequalities . Oxford Development Studies , Oxford: Carfax Publishing 23 (3) 245-62( ) Economic Growth and Human Development . World Development 28 (2) 197-220( ) Computable General Equilibrium Models, Adjustment and the Poor in Africa . World Development 27 (3) 453-70( ) Aid in the 21st Century: Reconciling the Real and the Desirable . Development 42 (3) 16-21( ) The Asian Crisis and Human Development . IDS Bulletin 47 108-119( ) V-Goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development . Economic Development and Cultural Change 47 (2)( ) Food Aid During Conflict: Can One Reconcile its Humanitarian, Economic and Political Economy Effects? . American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80 560-65( ) Civil Conflict in Developing Countries Over the Last Quarter of a Century: An Empirical Overview of Economic and Social Consquences . Oxford Development Studies 25 (1)( ) Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa . Development 2 64-7( ) Global Challenges: The Case for a United Nations Economic and Social Security Council . Viewpoint 10( ) Globalisation and Education . International Journal of Educational Development 16 (4) 327-33( ) Groups for Good or Ill . Oxford Development Studies , Carfax Publishing 24 (1)( ) The Governance and Mandates of the International Financial Institutions . IDS Bulletin 26 (4)( ) Basic Needs, Capabilities and Human Development . Greek Economic Review 17 (2) 83-96
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Chapters( ) Policies Towards Horizontal Inequalities in Post-coflict Reconstruction . In T Addison, T Bruck Making Peace Work: The Challenges of Social and Economic Reconstruction , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan( ) Addressing Discrimination and Inequality Among Groupgs . In J von Braun, R Vargas Hill, R Pandya-Lorch The Poorest and Hungry: Assessment, Analysis and Actions , Washington DC: IFPRI( ) Macro Adjustment Policies and Horizontal Inequalities . In P Arestis, J Eatwell Issues in Global Development: Essays in Honour of Ajit Singh , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan( ) Country Patterns of Behavior in Broader Dimensions of Human Development . In K Basu, R Kanbur Arguments for a Better World , Oxford: Oxford University Press( ) Successful Transition Towards a Virtuous Cycle of Human Development and Economic Growth: Country Studies . In K Haq, R Ponzio Pioneering the Human Development Revolution, An Intellectual Biography of Mahbub ul Haq , New Delhi: Oxford University Press( ) Dynamic Links between the Economy and Human Development . In JA Ocampo, KS Jomo, S Khan Policy Matters: Economic and Social Policies to Sustain Equitable Development , London: Zed Books( ) Do We Need a New \"Great Transformation\"? Is One Likely? . In G Mavrotas, A Shorrocks Advancing Development , London: Palgrave Macmillan( ) Motivations for Conflict: Groups and Individuals . In C Crocker, F Osler Hampson, P Aall Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World , Washington DC: US Institute of Peace Press( ) Basic Needs Approach . In DA Clark The Elgar Companion to Development Studies , Cheltenham: Edward Elgar( ) The Evolution of Economic Ideas: From Import Substitution to Human Development . In EVK FitzGerald, R Thorp Economic Doctrines in Latin America , London: Palgrave Macmillan( ) DO PRSPs Empower Poor Countries and Disempower the World Bank Or Is It the Other Way Round? . In G Ranis, JR Vreeland and S Kosack Globalization and the Nation State , London: Routledge( ) Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development . Wider Perspectives on Global Development , Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan( ) Democracy, Conflict and Development - Three Cases . In G Ranis, S-C Hu, Y-P Chu The Political Economy of Comparative Development in the 21st Century, Essays in Memory of John C H Fei , Cheltenham: Edward Elgar( ) The Asian Crisis: Social Consequences and Polices . Structural Aspects of the East Asian Crisis (OECD Proceedings) , Paris: OECD pp 133-163( ) V-goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development . In G B Navaretti, R Raini, G Zanalda Labour Markets, Poverty and Development , Oxford: OUP( ) Globalization, Liberalization, and Inequality: Expectations and Experience . In A Hurrell, N Woods Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics , Oxford: OUP( ) The Evolution of Development Economics and Gustav Ranis' Role . In G Saxonhouse, T N Srinivasan Development, Duality and the International Economic Regime, Essays in Honour of Gustav Ranis , University of Michigan Press( ) Civil Wars in Sub-Sahran Africa: Counting the Economic and Social Cost . In D Ghai Renewing Social and Economic progress in Africa , London: Macmillan( ) An Economic and Social Security Council at the United Nations . In D Sapsford, J Chen Development Economics and Policy , Macmillan( ) Market Liberalisation and Income Distribution: The Experience of the 1980s . In A Berry, R Culpepper, F Stewart Global Development Fifty Years After Bretton Woods, Essays in Honour of G K Helleiner , Macmillan( ) Comment on 'John Williamson and the Washington Consensus Revisited' . In L Emmerij Economic and Social Development into the XXI Century , Inter-American Development Bank( ) Basic Needs, Capabilities and Human Development . In A Offner In Pursuit of the Quality of Life , Oxford: Clarendon Press( ) The Urban Informal Sector Within A Global Economy . In U Kirdar Cities Fit for People , United Nations Publications( ) Global Financial Institutions for the Next Century . In R Culpeper, C Pestiau Development and Global Governance , Ottawa: IDRC/The North South Institute( ) Why We Need a Structured Market . In G Helleiner, S Abrahamian, E Bacha, R Lawrence, P Malan Poverty, Prosperity and the World Economy, Essays in Memory of Sidney Dell , Macmillan
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Reports( ) Memorandum submitted to the Treasury Committee on The International Monetary Fund, Minutes of Evidence, 4th November 1996 . , London: HMSO
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Working papers( ) Consumption, Globalisation and Theory: Why There is Need for Radical Reform . Consumption for Development - Background Papers for the Human Development Report 1998
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