African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, Policy

About Arkebe OqubayChristopher CramerJohn Sender

Christopher Cramer is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at SOAS University of London. He is a vice-chair of the Royal African Society a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and chairs the Scientific Committee of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics based in South Africa. He is the author of Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries (2006 C. Hurst) and worked on the Fairtrade Employment and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda research project funded by the UK Department for International Development. He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (2019 OUP) and The Oxford Handbook on Industrial Policy (2020 OUP). John Sender is an Emeritus Professor of Economics SOAS University of London. He began rural fieldwork in the 1970s while working at the University of Dar es Salaam. Later jobs included: Director of the African Studies Centre University of Cambridge; Visiting Professor of Political Economy Witwatersrand University; Senior Research Fellow African Studies Centre Leiden. He advised Mandela's Presidential Commissions on Labour and on Rural Credit; Economic Commission for Africa; Federal Government of Nigeria and Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; and he has worked with the Governments of Mozambique Uganda Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Early books include: Imperialism (1980 Verso); The Development of Capitalism in Africa (2010 Routledge); Poverty Class and Gender in Africa (2012 Routledge). Many journals publish his work including: Feminist Economics Journal of Economic Perspectives World Development Cambridge Journal of Economics and African Affairs. Arkebe Oqubay is a Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia and has been at the centre of policymaking for over twenty-five years.He is an ODI Distinguished Fellow and holds a PhD in development studies from SOAS University of London. He is the former mayor of Addis Ababa and winner of the ABN Best African Mayor of 2006 and finalist for the World Mayor Award 2006 for transforming the city. He is a recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun Gold and Silver Star. His work includesMade in Africa (2015 OUP); How Nations Learn (2019 OUP); The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (2019 OUP); China-Africa and an Economic Transformation (2019 OUP); The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development (2020 OUP); and The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy (2020 OUP). He was recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans of 2016 and a 'leading thinker on Africa's strategic development' by the NewAfrican.