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Robert Harvey Cassen OBE (born 1935), is a British

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and former

of the Economics of Development at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

Biography

Robert Cassen was born on 24 March 1935 and educated at Bedford School, at New College, Oxford, at the

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, and at

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, where he completed his

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in economics. He taught in the department of

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at the

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between 1961 and 1969, was Senior Economist at the Overseas Development Ministry between 1966 and 1967, Senior Economist at the

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between 1969 and 1972 (and again between 1980 and 1981), Special Advisor to the

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Select Committee on Overseas Development between 1973 and 1974, Director of the

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between 1986 and 1993, Professor of the Economics of Development at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

between 1986 and 1997, and Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford between 1986 and 1997. He has been visiting professor at the London School of Economics since 1997.Professor Robert Cassen
/ref> He was appointed OBE in the 2008 New Year Honours.

Publications

*''India: Population, Economy, Society'', 1978 *''Planning for Growing Populations'', 1979 *''World Development Report'', 1981 *''Rich Country Interests and Third World Development'', 1982 *''Soviet Interests in the Third World'', 1985 *''Does Aid Work?'', 1986, 2nd edition 1994 *''Poverty in India'', 1992 *''Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions'', 1994 *''India: The Future of Economic Reform'', 1995 *''21st Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development and the Environment'', 2004 *''Tackling Low Educational Achievement'', 2007

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cassen, Robert 1935 births People educated at Bedford School Alumni of New College, Oxford English economists Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford Living people Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Officers of the Order of the British Empire Academics of the London School of Economics University of California, Berkeley alumni