Léonce Ndikumana
Biographic Data
| ID | 87306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Léonce Ndikumana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Léonce |
| FAMILY NAME | Ndikumana |
| SIGNATURE | NDIKUMANA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3801-9626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa: The Takers and the Enablers
Does project-level foreign aid increase access to improved water sources? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda
Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana
There is a divide in energy access studies, between technologically-focused modeling papers in engineering and economics, and energy justice frameworks and principles grounded in social sciences. Quantitative computational models are necessary when analyzing energy, and more specifically electricity, systems, as they are technologically-complex systems that can diverge from intuitive patterns. To assure energy justice, these models must be reflec…
Does Health Aid Reduce Infant and Child Mortality from Diarrhoea in Sub-Saharan Africa
Achieving sustained improvements in health outcomes remains a challenge for sub-Saharan Africa, where diarrhoea remains a leading cause of death in children under the age of five. This paper examines the impact of foreign aid to the health sector on diarrhoea mortality in children under five in 47 sub-Saharan African countries, using panel data on the sectoral allocation of official development assistance in conjunction with country-level data on…
The Impact of Foreign Aid Allocation on Access to Social Services in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Water and Sanitation
Integrated Yet Marginalized: Implications of Globalization for African Development
This article discusses Africa's deepening marginalization in the globalization of production, finance, and labor. It underscores critical development issues that result from, and are exacerbated by, globalization in the context of unequal global distribution of economic and political power: illicit financial flows and tax evasion, the brain drain, an increasing incidence of noncommunicable diseases, and the disproportionate burden of environmenta…
Distributional conflict, the state and peace building in Burundi
Burundi's successive conflicts are rooted in an unequal distribution of wealth and power which has strong ethnic and regional dimensions. It is therefore clear that, if the new Burundian leadership is serious about building peace, it must engineer institutions that uproot the legacy of discrimination and promote equal opportunities for social mobility for all ethnic groups and regions. Education is an especially important sector in this regard, a…
Public Debts and Private Assets: Explaining Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries
Is Africa a Net Creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-96
This paper presents estimates of capital flight from 25 low-income sub-Saharan African countries in the period 1970 to 1996. Capital flight totaled more than $193 billion (in 1996 dollars); with imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock of flight capital amounts to $285 billion. The combined external debt of these countries stood at $178 billion in 1996. Taking capital flight as a measure of private external assets, and calculating net ext…
Our Friends at the Bank
Financial Determinants of Domestic Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Panel Data
Towards a solution to violence in Burundi: A Case for Political and Economic Liberalisation
The causes of violence in Burundi are complex and go beyond the alleged 'age-old' animosities between the Hutu and the Tutsi. In the short run, it may be impossible to eradicate conflicts; but it is imperative to transform conflicts into non-violent 'shocks of ideas' between rival parties, which must refocus their energy at finding a negotiated settlement. This article posits that the solution to violence must revolve around political and economi…
Regionalism and Africa's Development: Expectations, Reality and Challenges
Foreword K.Y. Amoako - Preface - List of Tables - List of Acronyms - Introduction: Africa and the World of Regionalism: Old and New - PART 1: REGIONALISM IN AFRICA: THE FIRST PHASE - Regionalism as Key Element of African Development Strategy - Experience of Regionalism in Africa: A Critical Appraisal - Interlocking Problems of African Regionalism - PART 2: INTO THE 1990s: THE NEW PHASE OF REGIONALISM IN AFRICA - New Regional Initiatives in Africa…
Congo's Odious Debt: External Borrowing and Capital Flight in Zaire
During the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko, Congo (or Zaire, as Mobutu renamed the country) accumulated a public external debt of roughly $14 billion. At the same time, Mobutu and his associates extracted wealth from the country. By 1990, real capital flight from Zaire amounted to $12 billion. With imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock of Zairian flight capital was nearly $18 billion. Congo's successor governments may be able to repud…
African Development Report 1997
African Development Dilemma. The Big Debate
This book explores development issues in Africa from the human, social, economic, geographical and political perspectives. It presents arguments as to why Africa remains less developed compared to other continents and provides recommendations to achieve effective development. The author discusses such specific questions as: Are Africans capable of developing Africa? How has nature contributed to problems in Africa? and Did slavery contribute to u…
Institutional Failure and Ethnic Conflicts in Burundi
Since the military coup d'etat of October 21, 1993 Burundi is experiencing a genocide, albeit at a slow pace, while the leaders engage in a series of ‘dialogue of the deaf.’ Meanwhile, half-truths are being told about the causes of the crisis and inappropriate solutions are being proposed for an incorrectly diagnosed structural social malaise. This paper examines the causes of ethnic violence by emphasizing the impact of institutional failure. Th…
Institutional Failure and Ethnic Conflicts in Burundi
Since the military coup d'etat of October 21, 1993 Burundi is experiencing a genocide, albeit at a slow pace, while the leaders engage in a series of ‘dialogue of the deaf.’ Meanwhile, half-truths are being told about the causes of the crisis and inappropriate solutions are being proposed for an incorrectly diagnosed structural social malaise. This paper examines the causes of ethnic violence by emphasizing the impact of institutional failure. Th…
The Impact of Foreign Aid Allocation on Access to Social Services in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Water and Sanitation
Public Debts and Private Assets: Explaining Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries
African Development Report 1997
Distributional conflict, the state and peace building in Burundi
Burundi's successive conflicts are rooted in an unequal distribution of wealth and power which has strong ethnic and regional dimensions. It is therefore clear that, if the new Burundian leadership is serious about building peace, it must engineer institutions that uproot the legacy of discrimination and promote equal opportunities for social mobility for all ethnic groups and regions. Education is an especially important sector in this regard, a…
Integrated Yet Marginalized: Implications of Globalization for African Development
This article discusses Africa's deepening marginalization in the globalization of production, finance, and labor. It underscores critical development issues that result from, and are exacerbated by, globalization in the context of unequal global distribution of economic and political power: illicit financial flows and tax evasion, the brain drain, an increasing incidence of noncommunicable diseases, and the disproportionate burden of environmenta…
Does project-level foreign aid increase access to improved water sources? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda
Financial Determinants of Domestic Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Panel Data
Towards a solution to violence in Burundi: A Case for Political and Economic Liberalisation
The causes of violence in Burundi are complex and go beyond the alleged 'age-old' animosities between the Hutu and the Tutsi. In the short run, it may be impossible to eradicate conflicts; but it is imperative to transform conflicts into non-violent 'shocks of ideas' between rival parties, which must refocus their energy at finding a negotiated settlement. This article posits that the solution to violence must revolve around political and economi…
Regionalism and Africa's Development: Expectations, Reality and Challenges
Foreword K.Y. Amoako - Preface - List of Tables - List of Acronyms - Introduction: Africa and the World of Regionalism: Old and New - PART 1: REGIONALISM IN AFRICA: THE FIRST PHASE - Regionalism as Key Element of African Development Strategy - Experience of Regionalism in Africa: A Critical Appraisal - Interlocking Problems of African Regionalism - PART 2: INTO THE 1990s: THE NEW PHASE OF REGIONALISM IN AFRICA - New Regional Initiatives in Africa…
Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana
There is a divide in energy access studies, between technologically-focused modeling papers in engineering and economics, and energy justice frameworks and principles grounded in social sciences. Quantitative computational models are necessary when analyzing energy, and more specifically electricity, systems, as they are technologically-complex systems that can diverge from intuitive patterns. To assure energy justice, these models must be reflec…
Congo's Odious Debt: External Borrowing and Capital Flight in Zaire
During the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko, Congo (or Zaire, as Mobutu renamed the country) accumulated a public external debt of roughly $14 billion. At the same time, Mobutu and his associates extracted wealth from the country. By 1990, real capital flight from Zaire amounted to $12 billion. With imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock of Zairian flight capital was nearly $18 billion. Congo's successor governments may be able to repud…
Congo's Odious Debt: External Borrowing and Capital Flight in Zaire
During the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko, Congo (or Zaire, as Mobutu renamed the country) accumulated a public external debt of roughly $14 billion. At the same time, Mobutu and his associates extracted wealth from the country. By 1990, real capital flight from Zaire amounted to $12 billion. With imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock of Zairian flight capital was nearly $18 billion. Congo's successor governments may be able to repud…
African Development Report 1997
African Development Dilemma. The Big Debate
This book explores development issues in Africa from the human, social, economic, geographical and political perspectives. It presents arguments as to why Africa remains less developed compared to other continents and provides recommendations to achieve effective development. The author discusses such specific questions as: Are Africans capable of developing Africa? How has nature contributed to problems in Africa? and Did slavery contribute to u…
Institutional Failure and Ethnic Conflicts in Burundi
Since the military coup d'etat of October 21, 1993 Burundi is experiencing a genocide, albeit at a slow pace, while the leaders engage in a series of ‘dialogue of the deaf.’ Meanwhile, half-truths are being told about the causes of the crisis and inappropriate solutions are being proposed for an incorrectly diagnosed structural social malaise. This paper examines the causes of ethnic violence by emphasizing the impact of institutional failure. Th…
Regionalism and Africa's Development: Expectations, Reality and Challenges
Foreword K.Y. Amoako - Preface - List of Tables - List of Acronyms - Introduction: Africa and the World of Regionalism: Old and New - PART 1: REGIONALISM IN AFRICA: THE FIRST PHASE - Regionalism as Key Element of African Development Strategy - Experience of Regionalism in Africa: A Critical Appraisal - Interlocking Problems of African Regionalism - PART 2: INTO THE 1990s: THE NEW PHASE OF REGIONALISM IN AFRICA - New Regional Initiatives in Africa…
Financial Determinants of Domestic Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Panel Data
Towards a solution to violence in Burundi: A Case for Political and Economic Liberalisation
The causes of violence in Burundi are complex and go beyond the alleged 'age-old' animosities between the Hutu and the Tutsi. In the short run, it may be impossible to eradicate conflicts; but it is imperative to transform conflicts into non-violent 'shocks of ideas' between rival parties, which must refocus their energy at finding a negotiated settlement. This article posits that the solution to violence must revolve around political and economi…
Is Africa a Net Creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-96
This paper presents estimates of capital flight from 25 low-income sub-Saharan African countries in the period 1970 to 1996. Capital flight totaled more than $193 billion (in 1996 dollars); with imputed interest earnings, the accumulated stock of flight capital amounts to $285 billion. The combined external debt of these countries stood at $178 billion in 1996. Taking capital flight as a measure of private external assets, and calculating net ext…
Our Friends at the Bank
Public Debts and Private Assets: Explaining Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries
Distributional conflict, the state and peace building in Burundi
Burundi's successive conflicts are rooted in an unequal distribution of wealth and power which has strong ethnic and regional dimensions. It is therefore clear that, if the new Burundian leadership is serious about building peace, it must engineer institutions that uproot the legacy of discrimination and promote equal opportunities for social mobility for all ethnic groups and regions. Education is an especially important sector in this regard, a…
Integrated Yet Marginalized: Implications of Globalization for African Development
This article discusses Africa's deepening marginalization in the globalization of production, finance, and labor. It underscores critical development issues that result from, and are exacerbated by, globalization in the context of unequal global distribution of economic and political power: illicit financial flows and tax evasion, the brain drain, an increasing incidence of noncommunicable diseases, and the disproportionate burden of environmenta…
The Impact of Foreign Aid Allocation on Access to Social Services in sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Water and Sanitation
Does Health Aid Reduce Infant and Child Mortality from Diarrhoea in Sub-Saharan Africa
Achieving sustained improvements in health outcomes remains a challenge for sub-Saharan Africa, where diarrhoea remains a leading cause of death in children under the age of five. This paper examines the impact of foreign aid to the health sector on diarrhoea mortality in children under five in 47 sub-Saharan African countries, using panel data on the sectoral allocation of official development assistance in conjunction with country-level data on…
Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana
There is a divide in energy access studies, between technologically-focused modeling papers in engineering and economics, and energy justice frameworks and principles grounded in social sciences. Quantitative computational models are necessary when analyzing energy, and more specifically electricity, systems, as they are technologically-complex systems that can diverge from intuitive patterns. To assure energy justice, these models must be reflec…
On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa: The Takers and the Enablers
Does project-level foreign aid increase access to improved water sources? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda
Economics (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · International Development and Aid (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Capital flight (4 works)