Peter Honorine Ady (1914, Rangoon – 2004) was an

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. She was the daughter of Malcom H. Ady and Cecile Estelle Muriel DuBern.

Life

Ady first attended

as an undergraduate at

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, later becoming a tutor and then, in 1947, a fellow in economics at St Anne’s. Whilst holding a fellowship she also held a lectureship in development economics. Her notability in the wider world is evident from her work for the United Nations as an advisor to the Burmese government. She prepared a report for them on public finance and was instrumental in producing Burma's first set of integrated social accounts (1951) covering the period 1945–1950. Between 1964 and 1966 she was seconded to the Economics Directorate of the Ministry of Overseas Development (the forerunner of

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). In the mid-1970s she worked as the director of

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and also at the

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. Ady has also worked as a consultant to the

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and the

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(UNCTAD). Noted work by her includes a jointly authored report for the OECD (1962)(with Michel Courcier) of a Systems of National Accounts in Africa. After her secondment to the Ministry of Overseas Development, her work's focus shifted to the international economic problems of the developing countries, their trade, and flows of international capital. For example, in 1972 she published ''Private Overseas investment and the Developing Countries'', Praeger.http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1999/09/17/000178830_98101901520025/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt Pioneers in Development - (Ady is mentioned, briefly, here as one of the first to be appointed in the then new discipline of Development Economics)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ady, Peter 1914 births 2004 deaths English economists British development economists Development specialists Fellows of St Anne's College, Oxford