Adam Fforde
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Adam Fforde is an economist specializing in Vietnam.
Education[edit]
Born in London in 1953, he was educated at Westminster School and the University of Oxford. Changing his academic focus from Engineering to Economics, Fforde attained his Ph.D (with a thesis on 'Problems of Agricultural Development in North Vietnam') from Cambridge University in 1982.
Career[edit]
He spent the 1980s and 1990s in Hanoi and Canberra advising on development practice for national aid agencies and NGOs operating in South-East Asia.[1]
Accepting a Fellowship in 1999 at the National University of Singapore, Fforde subsequently held a number of academic posts in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently among the most widely cited academics writing on contemporary Vietnam,[2] as well as the author of textbooks and critical works on the theory and methodology of development practice.
He is a Professorial Fellow at Victoria University's Centre for Strategic Economic Studies.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Fforde is the eldest son of John Fforde (1921-2000), a senior figure in the Bank of England, and the brother of British novelist Jasper Fforde (born 1961). He is married with four children and currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Bibliography[edit]
- Reinventing ‘development’ – the sceptical change agent, New York: Palgrave-MacMillan 2017.
- Understanding development economics: its challenge to development studies, 2013, London: Routledge
- Coping with facts – a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development, 2009, Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.
- Vietnamese State Industry and the Political Economy of Commercial Renaissance: Dragon's tooth or curate's egg? 2007 Oxford: Chandos
- The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam 1974-79: a study of cooperator resistance to State policy, 1989, New York: M.E.Sharpe ISBN 0873324862
- From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam, Boulder CO: Westview, 1996. ASIN: 0813326834. (co-authored with Stefan de Vylder)
- Vietnam - an economy in transition, 1988, Stockholm: SIDA (ISBN n/a). (co-authored with Stefan de Vylder)
- The Limits of National Liberation - problems of economic management in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with a Statistical Appendix, 1987, London: Croom-Helm. ISBN 0709910363. (co-authored with Suzanne H. Paine)
References[edit]
- ^ "Adam Fforde CV July 2016 | vietnampolitics.net". vietnampolitics.net. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
- ^ "Adam Fforde". esacentral.org.au. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
- ^ "Adam Fforde | Victoria University | Melbourne Australia". www.vu.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
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- 1953 births
- People educated at Westminster School, London
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
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- English expatriates in Australia
- 20th-century British economists
- 21st-century British economists
- English economics writers