Barbara Harriss-White

Barbara Harriss-White
Barbara Harriss-White in 2012
Born	(1946-02-04) 4 February 1946 (age 78)
Nationality	British
Organization	University of Oxford
Known for	Agricultural economics; Development economics
Spouse(s)	John Harriss (m. 1969; div. 1987); Gordon White (m. 1991; died 1998)
Children	2
Website	southasia.web.ox.ac.uk/people/barbara-harriss-white-0

Barbara Harriss-White (born 1946) is an English economist and emeritus professor of development studies. She was trained in geography, agricultural science, agricultural economics and self-taught in development economics. In the 1990s, she helped to create the multi- and inter- disciplinary thematic discipline of development studies in Oxford Department of International Development; and in 2005-7 founded Oxford's Contemporary South Asia Programme.^[1] She has developed an approach to the understanding of Indian rural development and its informal economy, grounded in political economy and decades of what the economic anthropologist Polly Hill called ‘field economics’.^[2]