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Tuesday Talks! African development
8th February 2011
My theme for the Tuesday Talk this week centres on the scope and scale of African development. I touched on this briefly at yesterday’s Global Economy conference in my presentation, and have included a link to my slides in this post. One of the economists that I referred to, Professor Thandike Mkandawire spoke at the LSE in April last year - you find his talk here: just scroll down the list load his talk in the viewer.
After listening to his talk, have a go at identifying the main challenges facing African economies in their quest for development. You may also want to take a look at the work of Paul Collier (who is a speaker at many of the LSE public lectures, which you can find in the same place as Thandika Mkandawire’s talk), and Amartya Sen.
In addition, on BBC2 this evening at 9pm, there looks to be an interesting documentary ‘The Chinese are coming’, which focuses on the role of Chinese investment in Africa.
Trade_gaps_of_LDCs_and_development.pptx
Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.