Rosemary Thorp
Rosemary Thorp was a British development economist. She published widely, with a particular focus on Latin America. Thorp held emeritus positions at the Oxford Department of International Development and St. Antony’s College and was a director of the University of Oxford's Latin American Centre. She was the recipient of a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. Thorp died on 8 November 2025, at the age of 85.
Selected publications
- Thorp, R.. Progress, poverty and exclusion: an economic history of Latin America in the 20th century. Inter-American Development Bank
- Thorp, R.. Economic management and economic development in Peru and Colombia. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
- Thorp, R... Latin America in the 1930s: the role of the periphery in world crisis. Springer.
- Cárdenas Enrique, José Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America - Macmillan/Springer
- * Vol 1: The Export Age: the Latin American Economies in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries,
- * Vol 2: Latin America in the 1930s: The Role of the Periphery in World Crisis,
- * Vol. 3 Industrialization and the State in Latin America: The Postwar Years.
- FitzGerald, Valpy, Judith Heyer, Rosemary Thorp eds. Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty, Springer