Bob Rowthorn

Bob Rowthorn is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, with special research interests in unemployment and inequality; economic growth, and economics of the family.

The economic consequences for advanced economies of economic growth in the global South

The emergence of India, Brazil and China as economic powerhouses will have a dramatic impact on resources, environment, manufacturing goods and income distributions. It will also increase the resources devoted to R&D that might abate some of the tensions created. But the so-called "structural adju

By Bob Rowthorn

/ 4 Mar 2011

Managing Britain’s People Flow

In May 2003 openDemocracy launched People Flow, an international debate about the movement of people. Its intention was to reverse the way that migration and asylum are seen, especially in

By David Blunkett, Bob Rowthorn, Trevor Phillips and Ben Page

/ 22 Oct 2003