Léonce Ndikumana is Professor of Economics and Director of the African Development Policy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a Member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy. His research covers issues of external debt and capital flight; financial markets and growth; macroeconomic policies for growth and employment; aid and social development; and the economics of conflict and civil wars in Africa.
He has held senior positions at the African Development Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
He has published extensively on macroeconomics and African development issues, including capital flight, external debt, foreign aid, financial systems, growth and employment, and conflict and civil wars. His work has appeared in academic journals and scholarly books, including On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa, Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent; Capital Flight from Africa: Causes, Effects, and Policy Issues in addition to dozens of academic articles and book chapters on African development and Macroeconomics.
Léonce Ndikumana is a graduate of the University of Burundi and received his doctorate in economics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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