Africa Task Force Meeting, Manchester 2007

The Initiative for Policy Dialogue's task force on Africa is comprised of a mix of academics (both economists and political scientists), people from the international economic institutions, and governments. We held our second meeting in Manchester, U.K. on July 11 and 12, 2007.
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In this meeting, participants presented drafts of papers that formed the basis of the discussion. Many of these papers will be developed for publication in a volume as part of the IPD book series. The topics covered include the inter-related and overlapping mix of: accelerating growth; the lessons of Asian experience; trade and industrial policy; the African developmental state; commodities and resource management; agriculture; the international agenda; and poverty and conflict.

  • Tony Addison
    Task Force Member
    Chief Economist and Deputy Director
    World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
    United Nations University
  • Yaw Ansu
    Task Force Member
    Chief Economist
    African Center for Economic Transformation
  • Barbara Barungi
    Task Force Member
    Regional Program Advisor
    United Nations Development Programme
  • Kwesi Botchwey
    Task Force Chair
    Professor of Practice in Development Economics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
    Tufts University
  • Karen Brooks
    Task Force Member
    Sector Manager for Agriculture in Africa
    The World Bank
  • Sarah Caro
    Task Force Member
    Publisher, Economics and Finance
    Oxford University Press
  • Michael Chege
    Task Force Member
    Director, Center for African Studies
    University of Florida at Gainsville
  • Christopher Cramer
    Task Force Member
    Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Dept of Development Studies
    The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Stefan Dercon
    Task Force Member
    Professor, Department of Economics
    University of Oxford
  • Augustin Fosu
    Task Force Member
    Deputy Director
    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER)
  • Ato Newai Gebre-Ab
    Task Force Member
    Economic Adviser to Prime Minister;
    Government of Ethiopia
  • Aime Gogue
    Task Force Member
    Professor
    Universite de Lome Togo
  • Atsushi Hanatani
    Task Force Member
    Senior Advisor
    Japan International Cooperation Agency
  • Irfan UI Haque
    Task Force Member
    Special Adviser to the Executive Director
    South Centre
  • Arjun Jayadev
    Task Force Member
    Assistant Professor
    University of Massachusetts
  • Abdul Kamara
    Task Force Member
    Division Manager
    Research Division
    African Development Bank
  • Ravi Kanbur
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Economics
    Cornell University
  • Aziz Khan
    Task Force Member
    Professor
    Columbia University
  • Mushtaq Khan
    Task Force Member
    Senior Professor in Economics
    The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  • Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    Task Force Member
    Professor
    University of Nairobi
  • Masafumi Kuroki
    Task Force Member
    Vice President
    Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
  • Michael Lipton
    Task Force Member
    Professor
    University of Sussex
  • Thandika Mkandawire
    Task Force Member
    Director
    UN Research Institute for Social Development
  • Ismail Momoniat
    Task Force Member
    Deputy Director-General, Economic Policy and International Financial Relations
    Government of South Africa
  • Kevin Morrison
    Task Force Member
    Assistant Professor, Department of Government
    Cornell University
  • Benno Ndulu
    Task Force Member
    Advisor to the Vice President, Africa Region
    World Bank
  • Akbar Noman
    Task Force Chair
    Senior Policy Fellow
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
  • Michael Nowak
    Task Force Member
    Deputy Director, African Department
    International Monetary Fund
  • Yaw Nyarko
    Task Force Member
    Professor
    New York University
  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
    Task Force Member
    Managing Director
    The World Bank
  • Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
    Task Force Member
    Director, Monitoring and Research Division
    United Nations University
  • Pedro Sanchez
    Task Force Member
    Director, Millennium Villages Project
    The Earth Institute at Columbia University
  • Santitarn Sathirathai
    Task Force Member
    Chairman of the Board of Directors
    Siam Premier International Law Office Ltd.
  • Kunal Sen
    Task Force Member
    Professor
    University of Manchester
  • Go Shimada
    Task Force Member
    Senior Research Fellow
    Research Program Division
    JICA Research Institute
  • Ajit Singh
    Task Force Member
    Professor of Economics
    University of Cambridge
  • Graham Stegmann
    Task Force Member
    Senior Advisor to the President
    African Development Bank
  • Howard Stein
    Task Force Member
    Professor, School of Public Health
    University of Michigan
  • Joseph Stiglitz
    Task Force Chair
    President
    Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
  • Sathirathai Surakiart
    Task Force Member
    Senior Fellow, The Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government
    Harvard University
  • Marilou Uy
    Task Force Member
    Senior Fellow
    Global Economic Governance Initiative
    Boston University
  • Francis Wilson
    Task Force Member
    Professor in Economics
    University of Capetown
  • Nimrod Zalk
    Task Force Member
    Deputy Director-General
    Department of Trade and Industry, Republic of South Africa
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