Keith Griffin (economist)

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Keith B. Griffin
Occupation Economist

Keith B. Griffin (born 1938 in Colon, Panama) is an economist, notable for his pioneering work on the economics of poverty reduction over more than forty years.[1]

From 1979 to 1988 he was President of Magdalen College, Oxford,[2] and he remains an honorary fellow there.[3] During his presidency of Magdalen College, he and Senior Bursar R.W. Johnson worked tirelessly to rescue the finances and buildings of the college, an effort described in Johnson's 2015 book Look Back in Laughter: Oxford's Postwar Golden Age.[4]

Selected publications

  • Keith Griffin (Editor); Mark D. Brenner; Keith Griffin; Takayoshi Kusago; Amy Ickowitz; Terry McKinley. Poverty Reduction in Mongolia. Asia Pacific Press (2003)[5]
  • Keith Griffin, The political economy of agrarian change: an essay on the green revolution. New York. Macmillan. 1979. 268 pages
  • Keith Griffin, Alternative Strategies for Economic Development, New York, Macmillan, 1999, 269 pages

References

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  4. Threshold Press, 2015, especially pages 195-220.
  5. Book review Danny Yee's Book Reviews (May 2005) ISBN 978-0731536955 Retrieved January 11, 2011

R.W. Johnson, Look Back in Laughter: Oxford's Postwar Golden Age, Threshold Press, 2015.


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