Thandika Mkandawire
 
Personal Data
Date of birth: 10 October 1940
Marital status: Married with two children
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)
Working Experience
1998 -    :Director, UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland
1986-96 : Executive Secretary, CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal
1980-86 : Deputy Executive Secretary, CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal
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
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
Advisory Posts or Missions
Adviser to Southern African Team on Employment and Training
Adviser to the Technology Policy Unit, Lunds University
Language Proficiency
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Nyanja (excellent)
Swedish (good)
Spanish (fair)
Publications

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)
Articles

  • 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
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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