Kjeld Philip

Kjeld Løwenstein Philip ( born April 3, 1912 in Copenhagen, † 27 October 1989) was a Danish economist, university professor and politician from Det Radical Venstre (RV), the trade, finance and economy minister was and beyond numerous organizations of the United Nations advised.

Life

High school teacher in Aarhus, Copenhagen and Stockholm

Philip began after visiting the Østersøgades School in 1931 to study political science and graduated in 1937. Following this, he was Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, where he took in 1942 his Doctorate in Economics with a dissertation on the relationship between public finance policy and economic activities with the title bidrag til lar om Forbindelse mellem Det Offentliges financial policy above the økonomiske Aktivitet from.

1943 Philip took a professorship for Social Policy and Public Finance at Aarhus University and graduated from there during his last until 1949 teaching 1947, a research stay in the United States. He then followed in 1949 the offer of a professorship in economics and social policy at the University of Stockholm and worked during his stay as an expert in the study of the Swedish pension system.

He was thereupon 1951-1969 Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. During this time, he was from 1953 to 1957 projection of the local economy as well as laboratory from 1956 to 1960 Chairman of the Institute for History and Economics at the University of Copenhagen. In 1955 he was chairman of a committee of Det Radical Venstre for Economic Co-operation, which significantly influenced the economic direction of the party. In addition, he worked until 1957 in various expert commissions for the tax law, food law, mortgage law and the emission value of fixed bonds with.

Ministers and deputy

On May 28, 1957 Philip Det Radical Venstre and Retsforbundet existing coalition government of Prime Minister Hans Christian Svane Hansen as Trade Minister in the from Socialdemokraterne appointed. As Trade Minister, he submitted bills for regional development, and sat down to trade through the reorganization of export credits a. Addition was carried out by establishing the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA) on January 4, 1960 in Stockholm to a liberalization of trade in industrial products.

After Finance Minister Viggo Kampmann after the death of HC Hansen succeeded him as Prime Minister on 21 February 1960 Philip followed on March 31, 1960 Kampmann as finance (finance minister). As finance minister, he strengthened the financial institutions for business and he sat lower taxation for restaurants and canteens by. Furthermore, there has been a strengthening of the technical and nautical schools.

Following the resignation of Bertel Dahlgaard he was on 7 September 1961 New Minister of Economy ( Økonomiminister ) while following him Hans R. Knudsen as finance minister. At the same time he was elected to succeed Dahlgaards in the election of 15 November 1960 as a deputy in the Folketing and stepped forward where the constituency of Skive. During his tenure as Minister of Economics it came to the adoption of the law on economic coordination, which led to the establishment of the carrier under his chairmanship Economic Council with three so-called " economic experts ". In addition, it came to the degradation of a number of administrative restrictions on commercial companies, as well as to a lower supporting small farmers, because in his view, the promotion of large farms in the 1960s would make more sense. The higher domestic prices he saw as an unfortunate form of agricultural subsidies.

After emerging from Det radical Venstre from the incumbent since September 3, 1962 government of Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag after the general election in 1964 Philip resigned on September 29, 1964 left the government and ended at the same time his political career, since he was no longer a candidacy was nominated for election on 22 September 1964.

Activities for the UN and other functions

1965 Philip was sent by the United Nations as an economic adviser to Somalia and was 1965-1967 Chairman of the Commission for East African Cooperation (Commission on East African Cooperation ) and Head of the office in Nairobi. In addition, he took over from 1966 to 1969 the office of the Commission for real estate loans Chairman. Subsequently, he served in 1968 as head of a UN evaluation team in Iran and 1969-1971 as a consultant to the International Labour Organisation ( ILO) in Geneva.

During this time Philip was also 1968-1973 Chairman of the Office for technical cooperation with developing countries and in 1968 was also Chairman of the Industrialization Fund for Developing Countries. At times, he was also a board member of the Association of National Accounts ( Nationaløkonomisk Forening ) and between 1969 and 1974 whose chairman.

Philip was next to 1972, Head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, which was primarily concerned with investigating the possibilities of economic cooperation between African states. In addition, he served 1975-1977 as both Chairman of the Committee on the Internal Transport in Greenland as well as chairman of a working group to streamline the tax administration. Most recently he was chairman in 1978 of an economic advisory committee for Pakistan.

Publications

  • En fremstilling above analysis af danske the Kriselovgivning 1931-38, 1939
  • Staten og Fattigdommen, 1947
  • Skattepolitik, 1955
  • Somalia, 1966
  • Det østafrikanske fællesskab, 1969
  • Kenya, 1974.
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