Irma Adelman

Irma Adelman ( Irma G. ( Glicman ) Adelman ) ( born March 14, 1930 in Chernivtsi, Romania) is an American economist and university lecturer.

Family

Irma Adelman was born Irma Glicman. She is the daughter of Raissa Glicman born Ettinger and Max Jacob Glicman, a merchant. The family immigrated in 1949 in the United States. 1950 married Irma Glicman the physicist Frank L. Adelman. 1955 Irma Adelman U.S. citizen.

His marriage to Frank L. Adelman went a son. The marriage ended in divorce in 1979.

Academic Career

Irma Adelman in 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley in the subject of Economics with the dissertation The Monetary Theory of Leon Walras: PhD A general equlibrium Analysis of Money to the PhD.

Adelman taught at Berkeley, 1955-1958, first as a Teaching Associate, then as an instructor and then as a lecturer with the rank of Assistant Professor.

Then Adelman moved to Mills College in Oakland ( California), where she taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor from 1958 to 1959. At Stanford University, she was employed as an Assistant Professor from 1959 to 1962. From 1962 to 1965 she was an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (Maryland).

Further stations of their academic teaching were the Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois ) (Professor of Economics, 1966-1972 ) and the University of Maryland (Professor of Economics and Agricultural Economics, 1972-1977 ).

From 1977 to 1978, Adelman Professor at the University of Leiden.

From 1979 Adelman was until her retirement in 1994 Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, since it teaches there as a professor of the Graduate School.

Activities in international organizations

From 1971 to 1972 worked Irma Adelman is a senior economist at the World Bank ( International Bank for Reconstruction and Development).

Irma Adelman was also a consultant to the UNIDO 1962-1963, with the United States Agency for International Development from 1963 to 1972 and the World Bank (from 1968 ), the International Labour Organisation ILO, the OECD and the FAO.

In addition, she worked as a consultant for the South Korean government.

Services

Irma Adelman is a major representative of the development economics and developed the strategy began as a demand from the agricultural industrialization ( agriculture - led industrialization demand, short ADLI ).

Writings

  • Dynamic Properties of the Klein- Goldberger Model ( with F. L. Adelman ), 1959, in: Econometrica
  • Theories of Economic Growth and Development, 1961
  • An Econometric Analysis of Population Growth, 1963, in: AER
  • Foreign Aid and Economic Development: The case of Greece ( with H. B. Chenery ), 1966, in: Restat
  • The Theory and Design of Economic Development, 1966
  • Society, Politics and Economic Development: a quantitative approach ( with C. T. Morris ), 1967
  • Economic Growth and Social Equity in Developing Countries ( with C. T. Morris ), 1973
  • Strategies for Equitable Growth, 1974, In: Challenge
  • Development Economics: a reassessment of goals, 1975, in: AER
  • Growth, Income Distribution and Equity - Oriented Development Strategies, 1975, in: World Development
  • Policies for Equitable Growth ( with C. T. Morris, and S. Robinson ), 1976, in: World Development
  • Income Distribution Policy in Developing Countries: A case -study of Korea ( with S. Robinson ), 1977
  • Growth and impoverishment in the Middle of the 19th Century ( with C. T. Morris ), 1978, in: World Development
  • Redistribution Before Growth: A strategy for Developing Countries, 1978
  • Beyond Export -Led Growth, 1984, in: World Development
  • A Poverty -Focused Approach to Development Policy, 1986 Lewis (editor): Development Strategies Reconsidered
  • Confessions of an Incurable Romantic, 1988, in: BNLQR
  • Comparative Patterns of Economic Development, 1850-1914, 1988
  • The Relevance of ADLI for Sub-Saharan Africa ( with Steven J. Vogel ), 1992, in: Hans -Heinrich Bass et al. African Development Perspectives Yearbook

Honors

Irma Adelman was appointed in 1974 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS ). Irma Adelman is also a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association (Agricultural & Applied Economics Association / AAEA ), the Econometric Society and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce and Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.

1971, she was awarded the Order of the Bronze Tower of the Government of the Republic of Korea.

Due to a Royal Decision of 3 May 1977 she was appointed Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Law at the Clever Inga - Chair at the University of Leiden. She taught in the period from 1 September 1977 until 1 September 1978 on poverty and inequality. Their office began on 14 October 1977 with the inaugural lecture Redistribution before growth. A strategy for Developing Countries ( to German: Only redistribution, then growth A strategy for developing countries. ). She was also appointed as a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study ( NIAS ).

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