ABSTRACT
It is a great pleasure for me to introduce Ester Boserup to English readers. I first knew her when she joined the Research and Planning division of the Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva in 1947 of which I was then the Director. I soon discovered that she was one of the ablest and most imaginative members of our group, and her work contributed greatly to the early success of the annual Economic Surveys. Her ingenuity in using statistics to exhibit the trends in world trade, and to pin-point the causes of the disequilibrium between the dollar and the non-dollar world, deserves public recognition.
