The spread of economic doctrines and policymaking in Postcolonial Africa
When: | Wednesday, 14 September 2016 - Wednesday, 14 September 2016 |
Where: | Braamfontein Campus West SEBS Seminar Suite, 1st Floor, New Commerce Building |
Start time: | 13:00 |
RSVP: | Lerato.Podile@wits.ac.za or Events.Sebs@wits.ac.za by 12 September 2016 |
Professor Thandika Mkandawire will present this seminar.
The African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics, the Development Studies Programme together with the School of Economic and Business Sciences ( SEBS) will host a joint seminar to be presented by Professor Thandika Mkandawire.
Mkandawire is former Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the first person to take on the position of Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics.
He was formerly a Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen and has taught at the Universities of Stockholm and Zimbabwe.
His research interests are mostly in development theory, economic policy and development and social policy in developing countries, and political economy of development in Africa.
