Barbara Harriss-White | |
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 Barbara Harriss-White in 2012 | |
| Born | 4 February 1946 |
| Nationality | British |
| Organization | University of Oxford |
| Known for | Agricultural economics; Development economics |
| Spouse(s) | John Harriss (m. 1969; div. 1987); Gordon White (m. 1991; died 1998) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | southasia |
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.[1] 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’.[2]