Amartya Sen Lecture of Cambridge Society

Amartya Sen Lecture of Cambridge Society

Ph.D. Economics, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics and Politics (1996)
Ph.D thesis title:  ‘Distribution-Improving Development Policies: Applying the Equilibrium Framework’

A multisectoral general equilibrium simulation model was developed to analyse the implications of public investments on economic growth and income distribution for Bangladesh. The thesis presents ‘ex ante’ and ‘ex post’ counterfactual simulations, using household level income data to calibrate the income formation matrices. The thesis showed that that Pareto-optimal improvements of public investment allocations were possible. Welfare analyses showed that inequality aversion did not change these results.

Supervisor: Prof David Newbery, Director, Department of Applied Economics, Univ. of Cambridge
Examiners: Prof Michael Lipton, University of Sussex; and Dr. Paul Seabright, Univ. of Cambridge

M.Phil Economics and Politics of Development, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics and Politics (1983)

University of Cambridge, Faculty of Economics and Politics
Optional paper: Econometrics (written exam and project)

Postgraduate Diploma Economic Policy and Development Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden (1979)

Doctoraal Examen Social Sciences (MSc.), incl. Economics as ‘hoofd-bijvak’, University of Leiden, Netherlands (1978)