Michael
Lipton
Michael Lipton is
currently Research Professor and Director of the Poverty Research Unit at the
University of Sussex. He has been Professor of Development Economics at the Poverty
Research Unit since 1994. Prior to this, he was a Fellow to various institutions:
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and All Souls College,
Oxford. He also served as a Program Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition
Program at the International Food Policy Research Institute. As Senior Policy
Adviser at the World Bank, he was involved in the Task Force established to study
the impact of the World Bank's activities on poverty groups, among others. Prof.
Lipton holds an MA degree from Oxford University and D. Lit. from the University
of Sussex. He has received various awards and distinctions, including the Jenkyns
Prize and the George Webb Medley Prize in Economics. He was Rockefeller Fellow
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has extensively researched agricultural
and rural development, particularly technical choices, land distribution poverty
impact, the economics of poverty reduction, and demographic nutrition economics,
among others. He also has extensive experience in African and Asian studies.
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