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    Ester Boserup (18 May 1910 – 24 September 1999) was a Danish economist. She studied economic and agricultural development, worked at the United Nations...
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  • politician Ester Boserup (1910–1999), Danish economist Julia Boserup (born 1991), American tennis player This page lists people with the surname Boserup. If...
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  • Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in 2010. She was also awarded the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research in 2016. Sundar obtained a Bachelor of...
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    theory could explain this effect. The theory was originally proposed by Ester Boserup and suggests that agriculture advances only as the population demands...
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    Esther Yu Ester Andujar Ester Aparecida dos Santos Ester Balassini Ester Blenda Nordström Ester Böserup Elisa Colberg, known as Ester Colberg Ester Exposito...
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    particularly political scientist Elinor Ostrom, or economists Amartya Sen and Ester Boserup. Even though much of mainstream journalism considers Malthusianism the...
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  • women and their connection with the environment was sparked largely by Ester Boserup's book Woman's Role in Economic Development. Starting in the 1980s, policy...
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    of one 2014 study attributed these findings to widespread polygyny. Ester Boserup was the first to propose that the high incidence of polygyny in sub-Saharan...
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  • Bartlett Candide William R. Catton Jr. Dematerialization (economics) Ester Boserup Food security Jacque Fresco John McCarthy Julian Simon and Simon–Ehrlich...
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    disproportionately on the low-income population who are struggling already. Ester Boserup suggested that expanding population leads to agricultural intensification...
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  • creating (and defining) The Mothers of Invention. Danish economist Ester Boserup believed "necessity is the mother of invention" and this was a major...
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  • advancement in developing countries. A decade later, feminist economist Ester Boserup’s pioneering book Women’s Role in Economic Development (1970) was published...
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  • and extensive hoe agriculture on the other. Drawing on the work of Ester Boserup, Goody notes that the sexual division of labour varies in intensive...
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    and emotion in explaining economic phenomena. Many scholars including Ester Boserup, Marianne Ferber, Drucilla K. Barker, Julie A. Nelson, Marilyn Waring...
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    Vol. 15 (eds. Clüsener-Godt, M. and Sachs, I.) UNESCO, Paris 53–89. Boserup, Ester (original 1965: last printing 2005) The Conditions of Agricultural Growth:...
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  • intensive plough agriculture in those areas. Drawing on the work of Ester Boserup, Goody notes that the sexual division of labour varies in intensive...
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  • the majority of sub-Saharan African societies. Drawing on the work of Ester Boserup, Goody notes that the sexual division of labour varies between the male-dominated...
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  • economics, particularly inspired by the works of Alexander Chayanov and Ester Boserup. These cultural ecologists were concerned with how human groups made...
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  • 1909 – Fred Perry, English tennis player and academic (d. 1995) 1910 – Ester Boserup, Danish economist and author (d. 1999) 1911 – Big Joe Turner, American...
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  • Dorrit Willumsen 1979 Inger Ejskjær, Else Paaske, Eva Sørensen 1978 Ester Boserup, Inger Christensen, Sorella Englund, Elsa Grave, Ida Ørskov 1977 Marie...
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  • This[clarification needed] was later used in the mid-1900s by the economist Ester Boserup (1910–1999) to attempt to discount some aspects of Malthusian theory...
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  • compared adaptations of Kofyar and their neighbors to demonstrate Ester Boserup's thesis that agricultural intensification relates to the growth of increasingly...
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  • Nigerian Cocoa Farmers published in 1956 by Galletti, Baldwin and Dina. Ester Boserup's pioneering Women's Role in Economic Development brought greater, attention...
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  • of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and in 2022 she received the Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development (Denmark). In 2024, Tania Li was awarded...
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    anthropological studies of contemporary economies, including the work of Ester Boserup showed many flaws with Postan's key assumptions about demography and...
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  • skeptic outlook. He also came to be influenced by Danish economist Ester Boserup, who found that, in contrast to Thomas Malthus, a growing population...
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    interdisciplinarity to analyze global socio-economic change: a tribute to Ester Boserup", in Benería, Lourdes; Bisnath, Savitri (eds.), Global tensions: challenges...
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    and collective fieldwork in anthropology (the ECRIS canvas). Prize Ester Boserup, University of Copenhagen, 2014 Chevalier de la légion d'honneur de...
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  • the Old World between 1700 and 1900 (with Nancy Qian). In line with Ester Boserup's hypothesis, the introduction and historical use of plough agriculture...
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    that have communal grazing areas or "tribal tenure," Danish economist Ester Boserup, found that large families are desirable because more children means...
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