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This one-day conference will explore the connection between domestic and global and economic and political forces that combine to constrain economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Keynote Speech on Necessary Reforms for African Development: Thandika Mkandawire, Director of the UN Research Institute for Social Development is the author of Our Continent Our Future. Panelists:
Berhanu Nega, former Mayor of Addis Ababa and political prisoner, now Visiting Professor of Economics at Bucknell University. Nicolas Van de Walle, professor of International Studies and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. He is the author of African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis. Richard Kozul-Wright, senior economist, UN Dept of Economic and Social Affairs and author of The Resistable Rise of Market Fundamentalism: Rethinking Development Policy in an Unbalanced World. Carol Lancaster, associate professor of politics in the School of Foreign Service with a joint appointment in the Department of Government. She is also Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. She is the author of Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics. Leonard Wantchekon, professor of Politics and Economics, NYU, is author of The Paradox of ‘Warlord’ Democracy: A Theoretical Investigation.
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