Tom Forrest

Biographic Data

ID148163
NAMETom Forrest
GIVEN NAMESTom
FAMILY NAMEForrest
SIGNATUREFORREST T
AFFILIATIONSScience Oxford
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX2

  • Le retour des Indiens en Ouganda

    Tom ForrestARTICLEPolitique africaine1999Cited by: 2

    Expulsés par Idi Amin en 1972 alors qu'ils contrôlaient l'essentiel des activités économiques du pays, les Indiens reviennent depuis le début des années 90 en Ouganda. Encouragés par l'attitude nouvelle du régime Museveni, nombre d'entre eux sont rentrés avec l'intention de récupérer leurs biens et de s'impliquer à nouveau dans les affaires. Cet article souligne les enjeux économiques et politiques ainsi que les tensions sociales que soulève ce r…

  • The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise

    Ajibola A Lawal, Tom ForrestARTICLEThe International Journal of…1998

  • Politics and Economic Development in Nigeria

    Ajibola A Lawal, Tom ForrestARTICLEThe International Journal of…1998

    State, society and economy military government and politics, 1970-1979 a hollow democracy civil rule, 1979-1983 the return of the military the Buhari regime the Babangida regime the state, oil dynamics, and the economy, 1970-1980 civil rule and economic policy, 1979-1983 the state and agriculture on the 1980s structural adjustment and national accumulation

  • Politics and Economic Development in Nigeria

    Toyin Falola, Tom ForrestARTICLEAfrican Economic History1996

  • The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise

    Tom ForrestBOOKAdvance of African Capital1994

    Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, this study is the most detailed, most extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business yet published. It examines the strategies and patterns employed by business people from the colonial period to the present day and provides profiles of Nigeria's key entrepreneurs. Not only a valuable digest of business activities, this important study also challenges existing views about African …

  • The African Bourgeoisie: Capitalist Development in Nigeria, Kenya, and the Ivory Coast

    Peter Anyang'Nyong'O, Thomas J Biersteker et al.BOOKThe African Bourgeoisie1987

    Evaluates the role of indigenous capitalism and capitalists in Black Africa's most successful capitalist states: Nigeria, Kenya, and the Ivory Coast

  • The political economy of civil rule and the economic crisis in Nigeria (1979–84)

    Open AccessTom ForrestARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1986Cited by: 8References: 4

    This paper examines the dynamic interaction of economic policy and state action with political, social and market forces during the civilian regime of President Shagari (Oct 1979 — Jan 1984). It investigates why democratic politics, or more accurately, the rule of politicians, had disastrous economic consequences. The National Party of Nigeria, which gained power as a party of national patronage, was weak and largely devoid of policies. Political…

  • The Economics of Political Instability: The Nigerian-Biafran War

    Tom ForrestARTICLEAfrican Affairs1984

    Journal Article The Economics of Political Instability: The Nigerian-Biafran War Get access The Economics of Political Instability: The Nigerian-Biafran War, by E. Wayne Nafziger. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1983. £14.25 (paper). TOM FORREST TOM FORREST Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 83, Issue 331, April 1984, Pages 267–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afra…

  • Brazil and Africa: Geopolitics, Trade, and Technology in the South Atlantic

    Tom ForrestARTICLEAfrican Affairs1982

    Journal Article BRAZIL AND AFRICA: GEOPOLITICS, TRADE, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC Get access TOM FORREST TOM FORREST Tom Forrest is a Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. Earlier versions of this paper were presented to a Workshop on the Emergence of South-South Relations in the Changing World Order, Kunglav, Sweden, May 1981, and to the U.K. Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Oxford, Sept 1981. Special t…