John Francis Joseph Toye (7 October 1942 – 12 November 2021) was a British development economist and political economist who served as a director at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford.

He did this by studying the impact of multinational agencies like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on developing economies.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he focused his studies on agencies like World Bank and their role in pushing for free-market economics principles on developing economies.

This was the basis of his book Aid and Power (1991) which he co-wrote with economists Jane Harrigan and Paul Mosley.

[2] Toye was also amongst the first social scientists to identify the importance of growing economic linkages between Africa and China.