Kwesi Botchwey

Other notable previous assignments

• Advisor to the World Bank on the 1997 World Development Report
• Member and Chairman of IMF's Group of Independent Experts who conducted the first ever external evaluation of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility
• Advisor to the UNDP's UN Special Initiative on Africa
• Advisor to the European Centre for Development Policy Management

  Publications

• Transforming the Periphery: A study of the struggle of social forces in Ghana for democracy and national sovereignty, United Nations, 1981, DSDRSCA-83/UNUO-309
• "Obstacles to Centralized Reform: An African Perspective" in Deepening Structural Reform in Africa, Lessons from East Asia, ed. Laura Wallace, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, 1996.
• Implementing Debt Relief for the HIPCs, Center for International Development, Harvard.
• "Whither the Partnership Agenda in Development Cooperation: A Country perspective", 4th Conference on Evaluation and Development, World Bank
• "The New Partnership for Africa’s Economic Development: Internal and External Visions", NEPAD: Internal and External Visions and Influences

  Current and past projects

Papers and speeches given at conferences

• "HIV/AIDS and Economic Development in Africa" Theme Paper, African Development Forum, Economic Commission For Africa, December 2000.
• "Magnitude and Drivers of the Brain Drain in Africa" Keynote Address at the 1999 Africa Business Conference, Harvard University, 30 January 1999.
• "Growth and Poverty Alleviation in Africa", ODC Conference on African Economic Recovery, 1996.
• "Deepening Structural Adjustment Reforms and Policies for Growth in Africa", May 1996.
• "Growth and Poverty Alleviation", ODC Conference on African Economic Recovery, 11–12 June 1996.
• "Globalization: What has it meant for Africa and what does the future portend?" Presented at the Seminar on International Solidarity and Globalization: In Search of New Strategies, Stockholm, 1997.
• "The Role of the State, the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury Secretary in the context of Economic Liberalization and Globalization", Abidjan, June 1998.
• "The Politics of Administrative Reform", World Bank, June 1998.
• "Mobilizing capital flows in support of accelerated African development - the role of capital markets", Washington, DC, July 1998.