Derek Headey is a development economist, originally hailing from Australia. He completed his PhD in economics at the University of Queensland, where he also obtained his Bachelors in economics with 1st Class Honours. His research is mostly macro-oriented, with research on development strategies, economic growth, foreign aid effectiveness, dualism, urban bias, national policies, poverty reduction and demographic change.

• Relationships between demographic change, growth and poverty reduction
• Comparative work on India and China
• Development strategies

• Agriculture, development and urban bias
  Forthcoming. Bezemer, Dirk; Headey, Derek D. World Development.
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• National policies and the sectoral pattern of economic growth
  Forthcoming. Headey, Derek D. Agricultural Economics.
• Geopolitics and the effect of foreign aid on economic growth: 1970-2001
  2007. Headey, Derek D. The Journal of International Development, Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 161 - 180.
• The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid to Small States: An Agnostic Time Series Analysis
  2007. Hansen, Henrik; Headey, Derek D. UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2007-38.
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• Agricultural Productivity Growth in Developing Countries
  2006. Headey, Derek D., Rao, D.S. Prasada, Alauddin, Mohammad. CEPA Working Paper, Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, The University of Queensland.
• What Professor Rodrik means by policy reform: assessing a post-Washington paradigm
  2003. Headey, Derek D. CEPA Working Paper No. 05/07, Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Anaylsis, The University of Queensland.
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