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Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Development (DFID) and continues to represent DFID as Vice Chair of the African
Economic Research Consortium. Since 2009 he has been the lead academic for
the International Growth Center program in Tanzania, and in 2011 he was appointed
Special Advisor to the UK House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee Inquiry into
Aid Effectiveness. He is a co-editor of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and is a member of the editorial
boards of Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford Development Studies, and the Tanzania
Economic Review.
Ernest Aryeetey
Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana
Ernest Aryeetey is Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, where he has been
on the research faculty since 1986. He is also a nonresident senior fellow with the
Africa Growth Initiative in the Global Economy and Development Program of The
Brookings Institution, and served as director of that Initiative from 2009–10. His
research focuses on the economics of development, with interest in institutions and
their role 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. Among his many publications
are Financial Integration and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (1998); Economic
Reforms in Ghana: The Miracle and the Mirage (2000); and Testing Global Interdependence
(2007). He has been a visiting professor at Yale University Department of
Economics, and Cornell Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, at Swarthmore
College. He was the second recipient of the Michael Bruno Award of the World Bank
to become a visiting scholar for May-October 1998. He studied economics at the
University of Ghana and obtained a PhD at the University of Dortmund, Germany.
Elizabeth Asiedu
Professor of Economics, University of Kansas
Elizabeth Asiedu’s research focuses on foreign direct investment, foreign aid, and
HIV/AIDS. She is a former President of the African Finance Economic Association
and in 2007, she received the Emerging Scholar Award—a nationwide award that
honors minority faculty in the United States. Her work has been published in leading
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