Ester Boserup (18 May 1910 [1] – 24 September 1999) was a Danish economist. She studied economic and agricultural development, worked at the United Nations as well as other …

Ester Boserup was a Danish economist who studied agricultural and economic development, focusing on agrarian change. Her population growth theory is the complete opposite of the …

Esther Boserup (1920–1999) was a Danish economist who lived from 1920 to 1999. He felt that population growth occurs in a different (and quicker) manner than food production.

Ester Boserup was an economist who studied agricultural and economic development. Her work involved agrarian change on the international level and what the role of women should be …

Largely unfettered by disciplinary dogma, Ester Boserup observed human–environment relationships through an expansive analytical lens. Her ideas on agricultural change, gender, …

Ester Boserup was born in Copenhagen in 1910 and graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1935 in theoretical economics within a broad social science background. Her …

Contrary to Boserup's implications, the problem for women is not only the lack of participation in this process as equal partners with men; it is a system that generates and intensifies …

Ester Boserup was a Danish economist known for her work on agricultural development and population growth, particularly her theory that agricultural innovation and production respond …

Her ideas on agricultural change, gender, and development shook up research and practice in the mid-1960s and early 1970s and remain cogent half a century later for the development di …

The theory of agricultural development posed by Boserup is more subtle and complex than that of any of her predecessors. She sees population pressure as a major cause of change in land …