Thandika Mkandawire

Thandika Mkandawire is a Swedish economist and public intellectual of Malawian descent who is currently a Chair of African Development and professor of African Development at the London School of Economics^[1][2][3] He is a widely published scholar on the social sciences in Africa.^[4] His research focus in development theory and economic and social policy.

Personal life

He was born in Malawi and then moved abroad for college.^[5]

Career

Mkandawire received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Economics at Ohio State University. Mkandawire has worked as a professor at the Universities of Stockholm and Zimbabwe. He later served as a Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa CODESRIA.^[6] He is on the board of the social Science Research Council.^[7]

Publications

• Mkandawire, Thandika ed. 2004 Social Policy in a Development Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Mkandawire, Thandika, 2007. "Targeting and Universalism in Poverty Reduction," in Policy Matters: Economic and Social Policies to sustain equitable development. Jose Antonio Ocampo, Jomo K. Sundaram and Sarbuland Khan eds. Hyderabad/London/Penang: Orient/Longmans/Zed Books/TWN.
• Mkandawire, Thandika, forthcoming. "Institutional Monocropping and Monotasking in Africa," in Privatization: Successes and Failures. Akbar Noman and Joseph Stiglitz eds. London: Cambridge University Press.^[8]
• Mkandawire, Thandika, 2005 African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development Zed Books.^[9]

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