Léonce Ndikumana
Director, African Development Policy Program and Distinguished Professor of Economics
Member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy and the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation
Léonce Ndikumana has served as Director of Operational Policies and Director of Research at the African Development Bank, Chief of Macroeconomic Analysis at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town. He is also an Honorary Professor of economics at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has contributed to various areas of research and policy analysis on African countries, including the issues of external debt and capital flight, financial markets and growth, macroeconomic policies for growth and employment, and the economics of conflict and civil wars in Africa. He is co-editor of Capital Flight from Africa: Causes, Effects and Policy Issues and co-author of Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent, published also in French as La Dette Odieuse d’Afrique : Comment l’endettement et la fuite des capitaux ont saigné un continent, in addition to dozens of academic articles and book chapters on African development and Macroeconomics. He is a graduate of the University of Burundi and received his doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Download Léonce Ndikumana CV
Read interview with Léonce Ndikumana
Research Areas
Recent Research
-
The State, Corporations, or the People: Who Benefits from Mining in Zambia?
June 2024
-
Dark Spots in the International Commodity Value Chain: The Case of Copper in Zambia
January 2024
-
Gold in Ghana: A Story of Unbalanced Exchange
September 2023
-
Cocoa in Ghana, the ‘Political Crop’: Does State Control Shield the Cocoa Sector from Exposure to Capital Flight?
August 2023
-
Capital Flight from Natural Resource-Dependent African Countries: Updated Estimates and Analysis for the Cases of Cameroon, Ghana, and Zambia, 1970-2021
August 2023
-
The Role of Unit Labor Costs in African Manufacturing Investment and Export Performance
May 2023
-
Monetary, Fiscal, and Structural Drivers of Inflation in Ethiopia: New Empirical Evidence from Time Series Analysis
April 2023
-
Does Project-Level Aid for Water and Sanitation Improve Child Health Outcomes? Evidence from Household Panel Data in Uganda
March 2023
-
Does Project-Level Foreign Aid Increase Access to Improved Water Sources? Evidence from Household Panel Data in Uganda
June 2022
-
Growing the Good and Shrinking the Bad: Output-Emissions Elasticities and Green Industrial Policy in Commodity-Dependent Developing Countries
June 2022