Augustin Kwasi Fosu
Augustin Kwasi FOSU is Professor, ISSER, U of Ghana; Distinguished Visiting Professor, U of Johannesburg; Extraordinary Professor, U of Pretoria; and Research Associate (CSAE), U of Oxford. His recent positions include: Deputy Director, UN University-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland; Senior Policy Advisor/Chief Economist, UN ECA, Addis Ababa; and Director of Research, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi. He holds a PhD in economics from Northwestern University, USA, and taught in the USA for many years, with promotion to [full] Professor in 1993. He is Editor-in-Chief, Journal of African Trade (Elsevier/Atlantis); Managing Editor, Journal of African Economies (Oxford); and has served on the editorial boards of numerous other journals, including: Journal of Development Studies, Oxford Development Studies, World Bank Economic Review, and World Development.
Prof. Fosu’s research publications rank him among ‘top economists/authors’ in Africa and also globally: http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.africa.html#authors; https://ideas.repec.org/coupe.html. His article, ‘Growth, Inequality and Poverty Reduction: Recent Global Evidence’, received the August 2017 Elsevier Atlas Award: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-economics/news/augustin-kwasi-fosus-article-nominated-atlas-award.
Prof. Fosu has advised numerous international organizations. He has, effective 1 August 2021, been appointed by the UN Secretary-General to the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA). Locally in Ghana, inter alia, he served on the President’s Economic Advisory Council in 2012, and since 2020 been on the President’s Fiscal Responsibility Advisory Council.
Prof. Fosu’s research publications rank him among ‘top economists/authors’ in Africa and also globally: http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.africa.html#authors; https://ideas.repec.org/coupe.html. His article, ‘Growth, Inequality and Poverty Reduction: Recent Global Evidence’, received the August 2017 Elsevier Atlas Award: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-economics/news/augustin-kwasi-fosus-article-nominated-atlas-award.
Prof. Fosu has advised numerous international organizations. He has, effective 1 August 2021, been appointed by the UN Secretary-General to the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA). Locally in Ghana, inter alia, he served on the President’s Economic Advisory Council in 2012, and since 2020 been on the President’s Fiscal Responsibility Advisory Council.
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Putting the experiences of developing and transitional economies centre stage, the book investigates how their economic policies compare with the nature of economic liberalism during and after the significant economic reforms which took place from the mid-1980s. Beginning with two chapters which provide an introduction to the concept of economic neoliberalism, the second section focuses on its application to ‘practice’, and the book moves on to country/regional case studies, taken from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America, China, and Eastern Europe. The book closes with some concluding remarks summarising some of the principal findings.
Bringing together a wealth of expertise, this book clarifies controversial economic and political issues which have been significantly misunderstood in public discourse, and as such, it will be of interest to a range of researchers interested in the economic, social and political dynamics of developing and transitional countries.