The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa

Prior to his appointment as Vice Chancellor, Ernest Aryeetey was a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He was earlier Director of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) of the University of Ghana from 2003-2010. His research focuses on the economics of development and the role of institutions in development, regional integration, economic reforms, financial systems in support of development and small enterprise development. He is well known for his work on informal finance and microfinance in Africa. He has published with leading development journals and publishers. Among his publications are Financial Integration and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Routledge 1998) and Economic Reforms in Ghana: the Miracle and the Mirage (James Currey 2000).

Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Shantayanan Devarajan has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, and of the South Asia Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan's research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Mr. Devarajan received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ravi Kanbur holds an appointment tenured both in the Charles H. Dyson of Applied Economics and Management in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick, Princeton and Columbia. Ravi Kanbur has served on the staff of the World Bank, as Economic Adviser, Senior Economic Adviser, Resident Representative in Ghana, Chief Economist of the African Region of the World Bank, and Principal Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank. He has also served as Director of the World Bank's World Development Report. His vita lists over 175 publications and he has published in the leading economics journals such as American Economic Review, and the Journal of Political Economy. The honors he has received include the Quality of Research Discovery Award of the American Agricultural Economics Association and an Honorary Professorship at the University of Warwick.

Previously, Louis Kasekende was Chief Economist at the African Development Bank and Executive Director at the World Bank for Africa Group 1, including 22 countries mostly from Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining the World Bank, he served as at the Bank of Uganda as Deputy Governor (1999-2002), Executive Director of Research and Policy (1994-1999) and Director of the Research Department at the Bank of Uganda from (1992-1994). After completing his studies at Makerere University, he tutored at the University before proceeding for his post-graduate studies at the University of Manchester. During his studies at University of Manchester, he tutored in the department of Econometrics. Between 1991 and 1996 he lectured part-time in the MA Program in Economic Policy and Planning at Makerere University. His main area of research interest is macroeconomic policies implemented by African countries to recover from the lost decade of the 1980s.

Christopher Adam, University of Oxford
Ali Issa Abdi, Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI), Addis Ababa
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
Jehovaness Aikaeli, Bank of Tanzania
S. Ibi Ajayi, University of Ibadan
Channing Arndt, University of Copenhagen
Ernest Aryeetey, University of Ghana
John Asafu-Adjaye, University of Queensland
Elizabeth Asiedu, University of Kansas
Jean-Paul Azam, Toulouse School of Economics and Institut Universitaire de France
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, University of North Florida
Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
Barbara Barungi, African Development Bank
Robert H. Bates, Harvard University
David Bevan, University of Oxford
Haroon Bhorat, University of Cape Town
Arne Bigsten, University of Gothenburg
Christopher Blattman, Yale University
Jean Christophe Boungou Bazika, CERAPE
Serign Cham, Ministry of Finance, The Gambia
Ashwini Chhatre, University of Illinois
Paul Collier, University of Oxford
Massa Coulibaly, GREAT (Groupe de recherche en économie appliquée et théorique Université de Bamako)
Victor Davies, African Development Bank
Alain de Janvry, University of California at Berkeley
Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford
Shantayanan Devarajan, The World Bank
Yazid Dissou, University of Ottawa
Nadjiounoum Djimtoingar, Commission de la CEMAC
Ibrahim A. Elbadawi, The Dubai Economic Council, Dubai (DEC), UAE and Center for Global Development (CGD)
Adam B. Elhiraika, UN Economic Commission for Africa
Augustin Kwasi Fosu, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Séraphin Magloire Fouda, University of Yaoundé II - Cameroon
Ahmed Galal, Economic Research Forum (ERF, Cairo)
Bernard Gauthier, The World Bank and HEC Montréal
Alan Gelb, Center for Global Development (CGD)
Rachel Glennerster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Patrick Guillaumont, University of Clermont-Ferrand
Kamilla Gumede, University of Cape Town
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, University of South Florida
Heba Handoussa, Egypt Human Development Report
James Heintz, University of Massachusetts
Ali Hemal, Université de Batna
Johannes Herderschee, The World Bank
Amadou Ibrahim, The World Bank
Jennifer Isern, International Finance Corporation
Abdul B. Kamara, African Development Bank
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
Louis Kasekende, Bank of Uganda
Abbi Kedir, University of Leicester
Homi Kharas, The Brookings Institution
Asmerom Kidane, University of Dar es Salaam
Mwangi S. Kimenyi, The Brookings Institution
Jane Kiringai, The World Bank
Jacob Kolster, African Development Bank
Steven Kyle, Cornell University
Erin C. Lentz, Cornell University
Benjamin Leo, Center for Global Development (CGD)
Justin Yifu Lin, The World Bank
William Lyarkuwa, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Andrew McKay, University of Sussex
Damian Ondo Mane, Economics Advisor to the President, Equatorial Guinea
Ita Mannathoko, Adviser to the Executive Director, Africa Group I, IMF
Adelaide R. Matlanyane, Central Bank Lesotho
Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion Université Cheikh Anta DIOP de Dakar (Senegal)
Kupukile Mlambo, African Development Bank
Victor Murinde, University of Birmingham
Situmbeko Musokotwane, Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Zambia
Germano Mwabu, University of Nairobi
Mustapha K. Nabli, The World Bank
Vinayak Nagaraj, Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Zambia
Gobind Nankani, International Growth Center, LSE and Oxford University
Mthuli Ncube, Chief Economist and Vice President, African Development Bank
Léonce Ndikumana, African Development Bank
Benno Ndulu, Central Bank of Tanzania
Njuguna Ndung'u, Central Bank of Kenya
Tchétché N'guessan, African Development Bank
Phindile Ngwenya, The World Bank
Machiko Nissanke, SOAS, University of London
Dominique Njinkeu, The World Bank
Janvier D. Nkurunziza, UNCTAD
Akbar Noman, Columbia University
Khwima Nthara, The World Bank
Kako Nubukpo, West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and University of Lomé
Yaw Nyarko, New York University
Stephen A. O'Connell, Swarthmore College
Abena D. Oduro, University of Ghana
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, The World Bank
Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University
John Page, The Brookings Institution
Lauren Persha, University of Michigan
Peter Quartey, ISSER, University of Ghana
Vijaya Ramachandran, Center for Global Development
Jean Razafindravonona, University of Antananarivo - Ministry of Finance and Budget
James A. Robinson, Harvard University
Thomas Kigabo Rusuhuzwa, National Bank of Rwanda
Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California at Berkeley
David E. Sahn, Cornell University
Ana Santana, University of Stellenbosch
Thomas Schelling, University of Maryland
Khalid Sekkat, Economic Research Forum (ERF, Cairo) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Brussels)
Lemma W. Senbet, University of Maryland
Robin Sherbourne, Nedbank
Amadou Sidibé, Rural Development Institute, Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso
Michael Spence, New York University
William Steel, University of Ghana
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University
Francis Teal, CSAE, University of Oxford
Erik Thorbecke, Cornell University
Yamssekre Tiendrébeogo, Directeur Général de l' Economie et de la Planification
Christopher Udry, Yale University
Imraan Valodia, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durbin
Anthony J. Venables, University of Oxford
Desiree Venkatachellum, African Development Bank
Waly Wane, The World Bank
Leonard Wantchekon, New York University
Kerfalla Yansane, Former Governor, Central Bank of Guinea
Zeine Ould Zeidane, Former Prime Minister and Governor of the Central Bank of Mauritania