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Ndikumana, Léonce

Léonce Ndikumana is the Director of the Development Research Department at the African Development Bank. Formerly Associate Professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Chief of Macro-economic Analysis at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Léonce Ndikumana has contributed to various areas of research and policy analysis with focus on African countries. He is an active member of major research networks around the world, including the African Finance and Economics Association (AFEA) of which he is a former President, the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) where he serves as a resource person, and others. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Kamara, Abdul

Abdul B. Kamara is a published researcher and Manager of the Research Division of the African Development Bank (ADB). As research manager, Kamara is part of a team that is entrusted with identifying strategic priorities for Bank-led research on African economic and social development, and takes responsibility for supervising senior research professionals and publishing the Bank’s key flagship publications. Before becoming research manager in 2007, Kamara served as a senior agricultural economist in the Bank’s Operations Department, where he managed the Bank’s entire agricultural investment portfolio in The Gambia during 2004-2006.

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