Michael Lipton

Michael Lipton CMG FBA (13 February 1937 - 1 April 2023) was a British economist specialising in rural poverty in developing countries, including issues relating to land reform and urban bias. He spent much of his career at the University of Sussex, but also contributed to the work of international institutions, such as the World Bank's 2000/2001 World Development Report on poverty. He was reader, then professorial fellow, at the university's Institute of Development Studies 1967–94, and since 1994 was research professor at the University of Sussex's Poverty Research Unit, which he founded.[1]

Michael Lipton
Born(1937-02-13)February 13, 1937
DiedApril 1, 2023(2023-04-01) (aged 86)
NationalityBritish
FieldDevelopment economics
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Lipton was elected to the British Academy in 2006[2] and shared the 2012 Leontief Prize.[3] He was appointed CMG in 2003.[4]

Selected works
  • Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias and World Development (1977, 1988)
  • New Seeds and Poor People (with Richard Longhurst, 1989)
  • Does Aid Work in India? (with John Toye, 1991)
  • Successes in Anti-poverty (1998, 2001)
  • Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property rights and property wrongs (2009), Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-09667-6
  • Crecimiento equilibrado y crecimiento desequilibrado en los países subdesarrollados. Estudios económicos, 2(3), 55–84. https://doi.org/10.52292/j.estudecon.1963.983

References
  1. Lipton bio Archived 31 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Sussex
  2. "Professor Michael Lipton - British Academy". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
  3. "GDAE Leontief". Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  4. "No. 56963". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2003. p. 3.


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