Barbara Harriss-White, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Barbara Harriss-White

British economist

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1946

Place of Birth: United Kingdom

Profession: economist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Barbara Harriss-White (born 1946) is an English economist and emeritus professor of development studies.
She was trained in geography, agricultural science, agricultural economics and self-taught in development economics.
In the 1990s, she helped to create the multi- and inter- disciplinary thematic discipline of development studies in Oxford Department of International Development; and in 2005-7 founded Oxford's Contemporary South Asia Programme.
She has developed an approach to the understanding of Indian rural development and its informal economy, grounded in political economy and decades of what the economic anthropologist Polly Hill called ‘field economics’.