Ida Greaves: A Pioneer Development Economist

Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the ＂missing female voices＂ of early development economics. This biography, the first for Ida Greaves, attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears.

Barbara Ingham is an economist who has written extensively on development issues. Her research features the institutions in which development policy emerged from the 1930s onwards. She has co-authored the biography of a Caribbean economist Arthur Lewis and papers on Arthur Lewis and the Windrush Generation.