Background
Nafziger, Estel Wayne was born on August 14, 1938 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States. Son of Orrin and Beatrice Mae (Slabaugh) Nafziger.
(This study of inequality in Africa, first published in 19...)
This study of inequality in Africa, first published in 1988, not only rejected the orthodox approach of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which neglected income distribution and advocated greater external economic reliance, but also the statist Lagos Plan of Action, which supported comprehensive planning, large capital-intensive state firms, and increased government intervention in peasant prices. Wayne Nafziger's political economy analysis shows how the colonial legacy, the contemporary global economic system, and the ruling elites' policies of co-opting labour, favouring urban areas, distributing benefits communally, and spending on education to maintain inter-generational class exacerbate discrepancies between regions, urban and rural areas, and bourgeoisie and workers, even under 'African socialism'. The author's policy discussion eschews technoeconomic solutions, arguing that reducing inequality requires democratising political participation as well as economic control.
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( Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how econ...)
Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how economic decline, income inequality, pervasive rent seeking by ruling elites, political authoritarianism, military centrality and competition for mineral exports contribute to war and humanitarian emergencies. Economic regress and political decay bring about relative deprivation, perception by social groups of injustice arising from a growing discrepancy between what they expect and get. Nafziger and Auvinen indicate that both economic greed and social grievances drive contemporary civil wars. Finally, the authors also identify policies for preventing humanitarian emergencies.
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(Since the 1970s, African nations have faced chronic econo...)
Since the 1970s, African nations have faced chronic economic stagnation, increased poverty, debt and growing inequality among the classes. In "The Debt Crisis in Africa", E. Wayne Nafziger takes a critical look at the attempts to alleviate these problems by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations, the US government, banks, and the Organization for African Unity. Nafziger argues that African economic policies since 1980 have been shaped primarily by the conditions of World Bank and IMF loans of last resort - requiring adjustment and ereforms at the expense of poverty programs, wages, employment and public services for workers and peasants, who receive little benefit from the borrowing. These underprivileged classes opposed the economic liberalism of the World Bank and IMF, whose poublications emphasized longer-run structural adjustments but whose programs carried out short-term demand reduction. African nations today, Nafziger contends, are caught in an export trap - forced by WorldBank and IMF restructuring measures to compete with each other for export markets already sharply limited by rich-nation protectionism. He concludes that Africa would benefit substantially from reduced trade barriers, increased aid and investment, a breakup of the World Bank/IMF and rich-country lending cartel, and mutually beneficial debt write-downs by commercial creditors for severely indebted low-income countries. "The Debt Crisis in Africa" is an authoritative introduction to a topic that will interest economists, social scientists, bankers, business people, government and international agency personnel, and others who wish to understand the African and Third World debt crisis.
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(Written in exceptionally clear language, this comprehensi...)
Written in exceptionally clear language, this comprehensive introduction to development economics features an abundance of real-world examples. It focuses on real problems of developing countries and their people.
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Nafziger, Estel Wayne was born on August 14, 1938 in Bloomington, Illinois, United States. Son of Orrin and Beatrice Mae (Slabaugh) Nafziger.
Bachelor of Arts, Goshen College, 1960; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1967.
Research associate Economic Development Institute, Enugu, Nigeria, 1964-1965. Assistant professor Kansas State University, Manhattan, 1966-1973, associate professor, 1973-1978, professor, 1978-1999, university distinguished professor, since 1999. Fulbright professor Andhra University, Waltair, India, 1970-1971.
Fellow East West Center, Honolulu, 1972-1973. Visiting scholar Cambridge University, 1976. Visiting professor International University Japan, Yamato-machi, 1983.
External research fellow World Academy Development and Cooperative, College Park, Maryland, 1984-1985. Indo-American Foundation scholar Andura University, Waltair, India, 1993. World Institute for Development Economic Research, United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland, 1996-1998, Institute Social & Economic Research, Bangalore, India, 2007.
Higuchi fellow, since 2005.
(This study of inequality in Africa, first published in 19...)
( Economic Development, Inequality and War shows how econ...)
(Written in exceptionally clear language, this comprehensi...)
(Since the 1970s, African nations have faced chronic econo...)
(With the collapse of the Soviet economy in the early 1990...)
Secretary board overseers Hesston College, Kansas, 1980-1985. Chairman Lou Douglas Lecture Series, 1984-1991, 92-93. President faculty senate Kansas State University, 1990-1992.
Member American Economics Association, American Association of University Professors (president chapter 1981-1982), African Studies Association, Association Comparative Economics Studies, Omicron Delta Epsilon (honorary), Phi Kappa Phi (honorary).
Married Elfrieda Nettie Toews, August 20, 1966 (deceased 2007). Children: Brian Wayne, Kevin Jon.