My professional life and publications 1929-1998

´Ester Boserup´s writings have had major impact over the last quarter century on the evolution of thoughts in anthropology, demography, economics, and sociology, about the interrelationships among economic, demographic, and technical change´. (Population and Development Review, 1990) In the present work, the author reviews seventy years of work and writing on development economics and its relation to her own experience, from government planner in Denmark during the Second World War, via the United Nations, to consultant concerned with today´s problems of the Third World.