On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa: The Takers and the Enablers

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Léonce Ndikumana is a Distinguished Professor of Economics and Director of the African Development Policy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation and an Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He held senior positions at the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. His previous books include Africa's Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent (with James K. Boyce Zed Books 2011) and Capital Flight from Africa Causes Effects and Policy Issues (with S. Ibi Ajay OUP 2014) James K. Boyce is a senior fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His previous books include Economics for People and the Planet (Anthem 2019) Africa's Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent (with Léonce Ndikumana Zed Books 2011) Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars (Oxford University Press 2002); The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era (Macmillan 1993) and Agrarian Impasse in Bengal (OUP 1987).