Thandika Mkandawire

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Thandika Mkandawire

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#2493

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According to Wikipedia, Thandika Mkandawire was a Malawian economist and public intellectual who was a Chair of African Development and professor of African Development at the London School of Economics. He is a widely published scholar on the social sciences in Africa. His research focused in development theory and economic and social policy.

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Thandika Mkandawire's Published Works

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Thinking about Developmental States in Africa (2001) (755)
Targeting and universalism in poverty reduction (2007) (359)
The terrible toll of post-colonial ‘rebel movements’ in Africa: towards an explanation of the violence against the peasantry (2002) (212)
Neopatrimonialism and the Political Economy of Economic Performance in Africa: Critical Reflections (2015) (197)
On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa (2010) (165)
Maladjusted African economies and globalisation (2005) (98)
Africa's recovery in the 1990s : from stagnation and adjustment to human development (1992) (91)
Running while others walk: knowledge and the challenge of Africa's development (2011) (83)
The Social Sciences in Africa: Breaking Local Barriers and Negotiating International Presence. The Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola Distinguished Lecture Presented to the 1996 African Studies Association Annual Meeting (1997) (79)
Social Policy in a Development Context: Introduction (2004) (73)
Transformative Social Policy and Innovation in Developing Countries (2007) (61)
African intellectuals and nationalism (2005) (52)
African voices on structural adjustment : a companion to our continent, our future (2003) (50)
Africa’s Recovery in the 1990s (1992) (46)
From maladjusted states to democratic developmental states in Africa (2010) (45)
The political economy of financial reform in Africa (1999) (37)
Disempowering new Democracies and the Persistence of Poverty (2004) (37)
Adjustment, Political Conditionality and Democratisation in Africa (1994) (33)
Aid, Accountability, and Democracy in Africa (2014) (33)
Institutional monocropping and monotasking in Africa (2009) (32)
Social movements, social transformation and the struggle for democracy in Africa (1988) (32)
The State and Agriculture in Africa (1989) (30)
How the New Poverty Agenda Neglected Social and Employment Policies in Africa (2010) (29)
Incentives, Governance, and Capacity Development in Africa (2002) (28)
The Spread of Economic Doctrines and Policymaking in Postcolonial Africa (2014) (26)
Welfare Regimes and Economic Development: Bridging the Conceptual Gap (2011) (25)
The Political Economy of Privatisation in Africa (1994) (24)
From the national question to the social question (2009) (24)
Can Africa turn from recovery to development (2014) (22)
3. Developmental states and small enterprises (1999) (18)
THREE GENERATIONS OF AFRICAN ACADEMICS: A NOTE (1995) (18)
AGRICULTURE, EMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY IN MALAWI (1999) (16)
Thinking about developmental states in (2001) (15)
Globalization and social development after Copenhagen: premises, promises and policies (2000) (15)
Colonial Legacies and Social Welfare Regimes in Africa: An Empirical Exercise (2020) (15)
Globalisation, Equity and Social Development (2002) (14)
African intellectuals, political culture and development (2002) (13)
Non-organic intellectuals and "learning" in policy-making Africa (2000) (13)
Social Policies and Economic Development in Late Industrilizers (2009) (13)
The Political Economy of Development with a Democratic Face (1992) (11)
Social Sciences and Democracy: Debates in Africa (1999) (11)
Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa (2013) (11)
Globalization and Africa's Unfinished Agenda (1999) (9)
The intellectual itinerary of Jeffrey Sachs (2006) (9)
Rethinking pan-Africanism: national and the new regionalism (2011) (9)
Structural adjustment and agrarian crisis in Africa: a research agenda (1989) (9)
State Capacity, History, Structure, and Political Contestation in Africa (2017) (8)
Towards a development, democratic and socially inclusive Africa once again (2005) (7)
Rejoinder to Stephen Ellis (2003) (7)
The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development (2020) (6)
Can African have developmental states (2003) (6)
Learning from the South Korean Developmental Success (2014) (5)
Social development policies: new challenges for the social sciences (2008) (4)
Zimbabwe’s transition overload: an interpretation (2020) (4)
Social Sciences and the Next Development Agenda (2008) (4)
The new international economic order, basic needs strategies and the future of Africa (1980) (4)
Issues and perspectives in the politics of structural adjustment in Africa (1995) (4)
Policy coherence: trends and policy implications for international development cooperation (2001) (4)
Overview: Learning from Developmental Success (2014) (4)
Overview of an Alternative Long-term Development Strategy (1992) (3)
Financing of the new partnership for Africa's development (NEPAD) (2002) (3)
Social protection the role of cash transfers. (2006) (3)
UNRISD Research and Policy Brief 5: Transformative Social Policy (2006) (3)
Global funds: lessons from a not-too-distant past? (2006) (3)
Fifty Years of African Independence:: Personal Reflections (2015) (2)
Social Policy and the Challenges of the Post-Adjustment Era (2013) (2)
“For my generation, the death of #Mandela marks the end of Africa’s liberation struggle” – Thandika Mkandawire (2013) (2)
Dependence and economic co-operation: the case of SADCC (1984) (2)
Incentives, governance and capacity development: what role for technical assistance in Africa? (2002) (2)
African intellectuals and nationalism in the changing global context (2001) (2)
Towards another 'Great Transformation' (2016) (2)
Africa and the Changes in Eastern Europe (1994) (2)
Lessons from the Social Policy and Development of South Korea: An Interrogation (2014) (2)
Economy: post-independence (2002) (1)
Lessons from the Social Policy and Development of South Korea (2014) (1)
Aid: From Adjustment Back to Development (2013) (0)
Thandika Mkandawire delivers lectures in Accra and Dar es Salaam (2013) (0)
The Contributors (2015) (0)
Transnationals in Africa: some problems of research (1980) (0)
Findings and Implications (2013) (0)
International Forum on the Social Science – Policy Nexus ( IFSP ) Round Table Social Developpement Policies : New Challenges for the Social Sciences (2006) (0)
Intellectuals: post-independence (2002) (0)
The State and Development in Africa (2014) (0)
Findings and Implications: The Role of Development Cooperation (2013) (0)
Rethinking Africa's re-industrialisation and regional co-operation: what is the best way forward? (2011) (0)
Agrarian capitalism: from colonial rule to structural adjustment (2000) (0)

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