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Thandika
Mkandawire |
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Data |
Date of birth: 10 October 1940
Marital status: Married with two children |
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Education |
B.A.(Economics) Ohio State University,
1965
M.A.(Economics) Ohio State University, 1967
M.S.Sc (Economics) Stockholm University, 1970
Filosofi Doktor Kandidat (Economics): coursework completed (University
of Stockholm, 1972-78) |
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Working Experience
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1998 - :Director,
UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland
1986-96 : Executive Secretary, CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal
1980-86 : Deputy Executive Secretary, CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal |
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Teaching Experience |
1982-84 :Visiting Professor and
Consultant at Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies
1982-84 : Part-time Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of
Zimbabwe
1970-78 : Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Stockholm University
1975 : Research and Teaching Fellow,
International Institute of Labour Studies, Geneva
1966-68 : Research Assistant, Human Resources Research Centre (Ohio
State University) including one year in Ecuador
1960-62 : Assistant Editor, Malawi News |
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Other Positions Held |
Member of the Editorial Board Global
Governance
Member of the Editorial Board Development and Change
Member of the Editorial Board Africa Development
Member of the Editorial Board Oxford Development Studies
Current Member of the Scientific Committee of Association of African
Universities
Current Member of the International Board of the Swedish NGO Fund
for Human Rights
Current Member of the Executive Board of the International Institute
for Labour Studies
Current Member of the Executive Board of the International Federation
for Social Science Organisations
Member of the Developing Countries Commission on Global Change (1992-93)
Member of the Executive Committee of the International Social Science
Council 1986-88
Member of the Joint Committee on Africa, Social Science Research Council
1980-84
Member of the Selection Committee of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
Programme |
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Advisory Posts
or Missions |
Adviser to Southern African Team
on Employment and Training
Adviser to the Technology Policy Unit, Lunds University |
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Language Proficiency |
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Nyanja (excellent)
Swedish (good)
Spanish (fair) |
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Publications
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Books
- Co-editor, The State, Food and Agriculture Development
in Africa (CODESRIA, 1987);
- Co-editor, AfricaÍs Recovery in the 1990s:
From Stagnation and Adjustment to Human Development (Macmillan
1993)
- Co-editor, Between Repression and Liberalisation.
The Politics of Adjustment in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Co-author, Our Continent , Our Future
(CODESRIA, 1999)
Monographs
- Structural Adjustment and Agrarian Crisis
in Africa (CODESRIA, 1989)
- Co-author, Social Movements, Social Transformation
and democratisation in Africa (CODESRIA, 1987)
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| Articles
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- Globalization and AfricaÍs Unfinished Agendaî
Globalization and Economic Space Macalester International,
Vol. 7, Spring 1999
- ñThe Political Economy of Financial Reform in
Africaî Journal of International Development 11, 321-342
(1999)
- "Stylising Accumulation in Africa: The Role of
the Stateî in Lundhal, M. and Ndulu, B. (Eds.) New Directions
in Development Economics: Growth, Environment and Government in
the 1980s (London: Routledge), 1996
- ñEconomic Policy-Making and the Consolidation
of Democratic Institutions in Africaî Havnevik, Kjell (Eds.) Domination
or Dialogue: Experiences and Prospects for African Development
and co-operation, Nordiska Africa Institute (1996)
- ñThe State and Academic Freedom in Africaî The
Journal of Education (1995)
- The Social Science in Africa: Lessons for South
Africa in South African Journal of Sociology 1994
- ñAfrica and Changes in Eastern Europeî The
European Journal of Development Research Vol. 6 Number 1,
June 1994\
- ñFiscal Structure, State Contraction and Political
Responses in Africaî, in Mkandawire and Olukoshi (Eds.) Between
Repression and Liberalisation: Politics of Adjustment in Africaî
(CODESRIA, 1995)
- ñAdjustment, Political Conditionality and democratisation
in Africa, in Cornia and Helleiner (ed.) From Adjustment to
Development in Africa (Macmillan, 1994)
- ñThe Political Economy of Privatisation in Africaî
in Cornia and Helleiner (ed.) From Adjustment to Development
in Africa (Macmillan, 1994)
- ñZambiaî in Lance Taylor (Ed.) (1993) Rocky
Roads to Adjustment (ed.) (MIT Press)
- ñSocial Sciences in Africaî International
Social Science Review 1993
- ñThirty Years of Independence in Africa: The
Economic Experienceî in Anyang Nyongo (ed.) 30 Years of Independence
in Africa: The Lost Decades (Nairobi: AAPS/Academy Science
Publishers) 1992
- ñAdjustment with a Democratic Faceî in Cornia,
Mkandawire and van der Hoeven (ed.) AfricaÍs Recovery in the
1990s: From Stagnation and Adjustment to Human Development
Macmillan, 1992
- ñThe Informal Sector in Southern African Reserve
Economies, with Reference to Zimbabweî, in Peter Anyang Nyongo
and Peter Coughlin (eds.) Industrialisation at Bay: African
Experiences (African Academy Publishers, Nairobi, 1991)
- ñNorth South links and democratisation in Africaî
Development/Society for International Development No. 3/4:
39-41, 1991
- ñCrisis and Adjustment in sub-Saharan Africaî
in Dharam Ghai (ed.) The IMF and the South: The Social Impact
of Crisis and Adjustment (Zed Press, London, 1991)
- ñThe Crisis in Economic Development Theoryî Africa
Development Vol. XV No. 3,4 1990
- ñThe Road to Crisis, Adjustment and de-Industrialisation:
The African Caseî Africa Development, Vol. XIII No. 1,
1988
- ñHome Grownî Austerity Measures: The Case of
Zimbabweî African Development, Special Issue on ñCrisis and Adjustmentî
African Development, Vol. X, No. 1/2, 1986
- ñThe Informal Sector in the Labour Reserve Economies
of Southern Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabweî Africa
Development Vol. XI, No. 1, 1986
- ñDependence and Regional co-operation: The Case
of SADCCî in Emanuel Hansen (ed.) Regional Co-operation and
Peace (UNU/Zed Press, 1986)
- ñState Responses to Economic Crisisî, Eastern
African Social Research Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1984
- ñThe New International Economic Order, Basic
Needs Strategies and the Future of Africaî Africa Development
reprinted in Danish Nyvarld, 1983
- ñThe Lagos Plan of Action and the World Bank
on Food and Agriculture in Africa: A comparisonî Africa Development,
Vol. V, No. 3, 1980; reprinted as ñLagos-planen og Verdensbanken
om fodevarer og landbrug I Afrika: et sammenlignende studieî Den
Ny Verden Vol. 17, No. 1:66-80, 1983
- ñEconomic Crisis in Malawiî in Jerker Carlson
(ed.) Recession in Africa (Scandinavian Institute of African
Studies, Uppsala, 1983)
- Capital goods, accumulation and technological
change: some theoretical and practical issues from Africa.
International Labour Organisation World Employment Programme.
Working Papers No. 82:1-46, July 1981
- co-author ñThe Evolution of the Social Sciences
in Africaî Africa Development Vol. No. 4, 1980
- co-author ñSocial Sciences and the Development
Crisis in Africa: Problems and Prospectsî African Development
Vol. 3, No. 4, 1978ñ
- Accumulation on a World Scale: Review Articleî
Journal of Contemporary Asia Vol. XXI, 1997
- ñThe Role of Trade Unions and Employer Association
in Development Planning in Tanzaniaî (International Labour Studies,
Geneva, 1976)
- ñChoice of Planning and Employment in Six African
Countriesî (International Labour Studies, Geneva, 1975)
- ñAspects of Planning and Employment in Six African
Countriesî (International Labour Studies, Geneva, 1975
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| Work
in Progress |
I am currently working on two book
length manuscripts:Crises and State Responses in Africa and
Beyond Crisis: Towards a Democratic Developmental State in Africa
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