Robert Hunter Wade is a New Zealand born Professor of Political Economy and Development at the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN), London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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. He was educated in Washington, New Zealand, and Sussex University and worked at the IDS, Sussex from 1972-95. He has also worked at the World Bank

World Bank

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, 1984-88. He has undertaken fieldwork in a range of countries including: Italy

Italy

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, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

, Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 and even Pitcairn Island.

Key works

Robert Wade is author of many books and scholarly articles including:

• (1982) Irrigation and Politics in South Korea
• (1988, 1994) Village Republics: The Economic Conditions of Collective Action in India
• (1990, 2003) Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asia's Industrialization (this won the American Political Science Association's award of Best Book in Political Economy, 1992)

Awards

Recipient in 2008 (jointly with José Antonio Ocampo) of the Leontief Prize in recognition of his outstanding contribution to economic theory that addressed contemporary realities and supported just and sustainable societies.

Sources

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/DESTIN/whosWho/wader.htm Development Studies Institute (DESTIN) Robert Wade

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/index.cfm?P=9871 The Centre for Cultural Inquiry (CCI) at the University of Auckland

Website

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/DESTIN/whosWho/wader.htm