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Sir William Arthur Lewis (23 January 1915 – 15 June 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. [2] Lewis was known for his contributions in the field of economic development .
In his previous position, he worked as the director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Between 2014-2017 he was vice-chancellor for academic affairs and provost at Wenzhou-Kean University (associate vice president for academic affairs at Kean ...
Sir Arthur Lewis became the London School of Economics’s first Black academic in 1938, and now has a building named in his honour. Sir Arthur Lewis became the London School of Economics’s ...
The Dual Sector model, or the Lewis model, is a model in developmental economics that explains the growth of a developing economy in terms of a labour transition between two sectors, the subsistence or traditional agricultural sector and the capitalist or modern industrial sector.
Sir Arthur Lewis Building in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Sir Arthur Lewis Building (formerly 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields and Her Majesty's Land Registry Building) is an Edwardian Grade II listed building on the National Heritage List for England, [1] and an academic facility of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), located on the south side of Lincoln's Inn Fields in Central London.
Sir Arthur Lewis Dixon, CB CBE (30 January 1881 – 14 September 1969) was a British civil servant. He spent his entire career at the Home Office , where he reformed and modernized both the police and fire services.
He is married to lawyer Shirley Lewis, a Barbadian native and former Mayor of Castries. He is part of the prominent Lewis clan, son of St. Lucia's first Governor General, Sir Allen Lewis, and nephew of Sir Arthur Lewis, Nobel laureate in economics. Vaughan Lewis earned a PhD in political science from the University of Manchester in 1970. [3]
Phelps and Lewis were honored for their outstanding contributions to sport and philanthropy. Cyclist Masomah Ali Zada accepted the award on behalf of the IOC Olympic Refugee Team.