Seers-Singer-Jolly Fund
The Seers-Singer-Jolly Fund was set up following donations from three leaders in international development: Dudley Seers, Sir Hans Singer and Sir Richard Jolly.
These three have been instrumental to the growth of IDS since our formation in 1966.
The Fund aims to help more talented individuals from low or lower-middle-income countries study at IDS, in line with the IDS Graduate Scholarship Campaign.
Richard Jolly is currently gifting profits from his new book, A Development Economist in the United Nations, to the Fund.
Read more about these three extraordinary leaders:
Dudley Seers
Dudley Seers (1920–1983) was a highly influential economist specialising in development economics. He was the founding Director of IDS from 1966 until 1972.
Dudley Seers’ academic work on development economics helped shift early development thinking in the post-World War two period away from ideas of growth economics and towards greater concerns about social development. His work sought to produce a true political economy, linking theory to practice. Seers saw ideas as central to changing the world, but that institutions can serve to generate and carry forward these ideas. IDS is one such institution built on this vision.
Read more about Dudley Seers.
Sir Hans Singer
Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer (1910–2006) was a German-born British development economist best known for the Singer–Prebisch thesis, which states that there is an inherent bias in international trade against the interests of developing countries. He is one of the primary figures of heterodox economics.
After a 22 year career with the United Nations, he joined the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as a Professional Fellow. He produced about 30 books under his name and nearly 300 other publications. Read more about Sir Hans Singer.
Sir Richard Jolly
Sir Richard Jolly is an Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies. He was the second Director of IDS from 1972-81 and then from 1982-95 Deputy Executive Director for Programmes of UNICEF, with the rank of UN Assistant Secretary General.
He has written or been a co-author of some 20 books on the history of the United Nations, UNICEF, the Bretton Woods Institutions, education and disarmament. In 2022 he published A Development Economist in the United Nations: Reasons for Hope.
Read more about Sir Richard Jolly.
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