Cynthia Taft Morris (1928-2013) was an American

development economist Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural ...

. She was a graduate from Vassar College, London School of Economics and Yale. And she worked on the

Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion (equivalent of about $ in ) in economic re ...

, at the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

and most notably with Irma Adelman. Cynthia Taft Morris was a granddaughter of former President

William Howard Taft William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth chief justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected pr ...

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* 1928 births 2013 deaths American development economists American women economists Vassar College alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics Yale University alumni American expatriates in the United Kingdom 21st-century American women writers {{US-economist-stub