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W. Arthur Lewis
W. Arthur Lewis was an economist from Saint Lucia who shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1979 for his work on economic development. His model of a dual economy, in which surplus rural labour moves into a growing modern sector, became central to development economics. He advised governments in Ghana and the Caribbean, was the first vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies and taught at Princeton.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). W. Arthur Lewis. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/w-arthur-lewis
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