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Birmingham, Walter Barr


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380661

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Birmingham, Walter Barr

Date(s): Created 1955-1977

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Birmingham | Walter Barr | fl 1952-1977 | Professor of Economics

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Walter Barr Birmingham was Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Ghana at Legon-Achimota from 1952-1960. In 1954 he conducted possibly the first public opinion survey in tropical Africa prior to the Gold Coast General Election. In 1955 he served on the Royal Commission of Enquiry into the mining industry and advised on the Five-Year Development Plan of 1963. From 1972-1975 he was Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Coast. His main publications were Introduction to Economics (1955) and in Social and Economic Survey of Ghana edited by Omaboe and Neustadt.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1955-1977, of Walter Barr Birmingham, comprising bibliographies and publications relating to economics in West Africa including Migrations into the Gold Coast (1955) and The State and Labour Migration in the South African Political Economy, with Particular Respect to Gold Mining (1977). It also contains the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the West African Institute of Social and Economic Research (1956).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited on permanent loan in 1996.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Academic teaching personnel | Teachers | Educational personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Bibliographies | Secondary documents
Development planning | Development policy | Economic and social development
Economic research | Economics
Gold | Precious metals | Metals | Inorganic chemicals | Chemicals
Labour migration | Migration
Labour mobility | Labour market
Chemical elements
Mining

Personal names
Birmingham | Walter Barr | fl 1952-1977 | Professor of Economics

Corporate names

Places
Ghana | West Africa | Africa
South Africa | Southern Africa