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.

• The Food Price crisis: Africa's response to the crisis; comparisons with the 1974 crisis
• Relationships between demographic change, growth and poverty reduction
• Comparative work on India and China
• Development strategies

• The effect of demographic change on economic growth
  2008. (under review). Headey, Derek; Hodge, Andrew.
• Anatomy of a crisis: the causes and consequences of surging food prices
  Forthcoming. Headey, Derek; Fan, Shenggen. Forthcoming in Agricultural Economics.
• Towards a Green Revolution in Africa: What would it would it require, and what would it achieve?
  Forthcoming. Diao, Xinshen; Headey, Derek; ;Johnson, Michael. Forthcoming in Agricultural Economics.
• Agriculture, development and urban bias
  Forthcoming. Bezemer, Dirk; Headey, Derek D. World Development.
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• The principal components of growth
  Forthcoming. Headey, Derek D. forthcoming in Kyklos.
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• National policies and the sectoral pattern of economic growth
  2008. Headey, Derek D. Agricultural Economics, 38(3): 287-299.
• 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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