John R. Harris

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John R. Harris is affiliated with the following schools: Boston University, Northwestern University

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John R. Harris

Economics

#566

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#692

Historical Rank

#334

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According to Wikipedia, John Rees Harris , Professor of Economics at Boston University, was an American economist known for his work in the field of development economics. Harris earned a PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 1967. Harris was an African Development economist. His work on labor markets and wages, embodied in the Harris-Todaro Model is a foundation of contemporary Development Economics, and was constructed based on observations of Nigerian and Kenyan labor markets. Harris directly worked for numerous governmental and non-governmental agencies including USAID, World Bank, International Labor Organization, the WHO, the Canadian International Development Research Center the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the UN Development Programme. Harris was a member of the Advisory Group of the Macroeconomic Research Network for Eastern and Southern Africa, the precursor to the African Economic Research Consortium .

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John R. Harris's Published Works

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Migration, Unemployment & Development: A Two-Sector Analysis (1970) (4805)
Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics (1984) (1271)
On the Economics of Law and Order (1970) (91)
Education, Earnings, and Migration in Indonesia (1986) (55)
Urban unemployment in East Africa: an economic analysis of policy alternatives (1968) (25)
Remittance flows to post-conflict states: perspectives on human security and development (2013) (12)
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (1971) (9)
Some problems in indentifying the role of entrepreneurship in economic development: The Nigerian case (1969) (8)
Wage rate determination with limited supplies of labour in developing countries: A comment (1971) (8)
A two sector model of migration with urban unemployment in developing economies (1968) (8)
Rural-to-urban labour migration: a tabulation of the responses to the questionnaire used in the migration survey (1970) (7)
POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN UGANDA (2003) (6)
Urban and Industrial Deconcentration in Developing Economies: An Analytical Framework (1971) (4)
Book Review:False Start in Africa Rene Dumont, Phyllis Nauts Ott (1968) (1)
On the Concept of Entrepreneurship, with an Application to Nigeria (1972) (1)
Panel 11 The Rhetoric, Reality, and Future of the Relationship Dimension in Information Technology Outsourcing (1997) (1)
Some thoughts on a housing policy for Nairobi (1969) (1)
Economic development, human development, and the pursuit of happiness, April 1, 2, and 3, 2004 (2008) (0)
Wage policy and employment in a developing economy (1968) (0)
DcWcY LiJRARY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (2011) (0)
The Labor Process and Modes of Production in Africa (1981) (0)
MIGRANT LABOUR IN THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY : A BURDEN OR A BLESSING ? (2016) (0)
The rhetoric, reality, and future of the relationship dimension in information technology outsourcing (panel session) (1997) (0)
A FURTHER NOTE ON LABOUR MIGRATION (1970) (0)
Development that works, March 31, 2011 (2011) (0)
Formalizing the Informal or Informalizing the Formal? Integrating Remittance Systems for Post-Conflict Development (2013) (0)

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