Author Biography

Léonce Ndikumana is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he serves as the Director of the African Development Policy Program. He is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, and an honorary professor of economics at the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He has held positions as the Director of Operational Policies, Director of Research at the African Development Bank, and Chief of Macroeconomic Analysis at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). His previous works include "Africa's Odious Debt: How Debt and Capital Flight Bled a Continent" (with James K. Boyce, Amalion, 2013), and "Capital Flight from Africa: Causes, Effects, and Policy Issues" (with S. Ibi Ajay, OUP, 2014).

James K. Boyce is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published works such as "Economics for People and the Planet" (Anthem, 2019), "Africa's Odious Debt: How Debt and Capital Flight Bled a Continent" (with Léonce Ndikumana, Zed Books, 2011), "Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars" (Oxford University Press, 2002), "The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era" (Macmillan, 1993), and "Agrarian Impasse in Bengal" (OUP, 1987).