External Factors in the Savings Propensities of Developing Countries

Peter Ady

Miss Ady, Fellow of St Anne's College and University Lecturer in Development Economics, has been at various times Consultant to UN; UNDP; the World Bank and UNCTAD. Her early work for United Nations was on National Accounts (e. g. Burma's first set of integrated social accounts in 1951 covering the 5 postwar years). She was joint author (with Michel Courcier) of Systems of National Accounts in Africa (OECD 1962). Following secondment from Oxford to the Ministry of Overseas Development (1965-67) her work focused more on the international economic problems of the developing countries, especially thgir commodity trade, and international capital movements (e. g. Private Overseas investment and the Developing Countries. Praeger 1972). Recent articles include econometric exercises e. g. ‘Supply Functions in Tropical Agriculture’ (BOUIES 1968) and various studies on the Integrated Programme and Common Fund e. g. ‘European Attitudes to the Common Fund’ (EADI forthcoming).