Reginald Green (economist)

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Reginald Green
Born
Reginald Herbold Green

(1935-05-04)May 4, 1935
Walla Walla, Washington, US
DiedOctober 16, 2021(2021-10-16) (aged 86)
Louth, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Academic career
InstitutionsHarvard University, University of Ghana, Institute of Development Studies
FieldDevelopment economics; African studies; Pan-Africanism

Reginald Herbold Green (May 4, 1935 – October 16, 2021) was an American

Economic Commission on Africa, specializing in poverty alleviation, development enablement, and economic liberalization
.

His study for UNICEF of the economic impact of South Africa's apartheid policies on children in countries such as Angola and Mozambique was influential in stimulating western countries to put pressure on South Africa to end the apartheid regime.

Early life

Reginald Herbold Green was born on May 4, 1935, in

clergyman. Green studied at the Whitman College, a private liberal arts college in Walla Walla, and then went on to Harvard University, from which he received his doctorate in 1961.[1]

Career

Green started his career at the Economic Growth Center in

professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, a research institute at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, where he served until his retirement in 2000.[1][2]

As a

Economic Commission on Africa, specializing on poverty alleviation, development enablement, and economic liberalization.[1][3]

Through the 1960s and early 1970s, Green was the advisor to

independence in 1991.[1]

Green's 1968 book, Unity or Poverty: The Economics of Pan Africanism, cowritten with economist Ann Seidman, emphasized the notion of pan-Africanism, and argued for development aid flowing into the countries to be linked to social and economic unity between the countries. The book was built on a paper that was published at the Cairo Conference of the Organisation of African Unity in 1964.[2][4]

One of Green's most influential works was a study that he did for

apartheid regime.[5] During this period, he also focused on studying the political economy of conflicts, conflict regions, and rehabilitation. His work continued to string together themes of poverty alleviation, conflict economics, and broad-based development.[2]

Green served as an advisor to many developmental organizations including

Economic Commission for Africa, the UNICEF, UNCTAD, WFP, ILO and the UNDP. He was also associated with the Southern African Development Community and had served as a consultant for the African Centre for Monetary Studies.[2]

Personal life

Green was married to Bliss Griffiths, a marriage that ended in a divorce.[1] He moved to the United Kingdom in 1975, and in later life he lived in Lewes, East Sussex.[1]

Green died on October 16, 2021, at Madeira House Nursing Home in Louth, Lincolnshire. He was aged 86.[5]

Select works

  • Green, Reginald H. (1963). "Multi-Purpose Economic Institutions in Africa". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 1 (2): 163–184.
    S2CID 153538548
    .
  • Green, Reginald H. (1964). "Toward African Economic Integration? Problems and Perspectives [Abstract]". African Studies Bulletin. 7 (4): 24.
    JSTOR 523288
    .
  • Green, Reginald H. (1965). "Four African Development Plans: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 3 (2): 249–279.
    S2CID 154803689
    .
  • Green, R. H.; Hymer, S. H. (1966). "Cocoa in the Gold Coast: A Study in the Relations between African Farmers and Agricultural Experts*". The Journal of Economic History. 26 (3): 299–319.
    S2CID 153660064
    .
  • Green, Reginald H. (1967). "U.N.C.T.A.D. and after: Anatomy of a Failure". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 5 (2): 243–267.
    S2CID 153364129
    .
  • Green, Reginald Herbold; Seidman, Ann Willcox (1968). Unity Or Poverty?: The Economics of Pan-Africanism. Penguin.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Reginald Green obituary". The Guardian. November 5, 2021. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Institute of Development Studies United Kingdom - Open Docs - Reginald H Green Biography" (PDF). Institute of Development Studies. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  3. S2CID 16313896. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
    )
  4. JSTOR 24350110. Archived
    from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Reginald Herbold Green: An obituary". Institute of Development Studies. Archived from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.

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