High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sanjaya Lall (13 December 1940 - 18 June 2005) was a development economist, Professor of Economics and Fellow of Green College, Oxford University. Lall`s research interests included the impact of foreign direct investment in developing countries, the economics of multi-national corporations, and the development of technological capability and industrial competitiveness in developing countries. One of the world`s pre-eminent development economists, Lall was also one of the founding editors of the journal Oxford Development Studies and a senior economist at the World Bank (1965–68 and 1985–87).