Kwesi Botchwey
Kwesi Botchwey was a Ghanaian government official and Professor of Practice in Development Economics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.
Botchwey was Minister for Finance and Economic Planning from 1982 to 1995. He was appointed by Jerry Rawlings to assist in stabilizing Ghana's collapsed economy.
Education
Botchwey received his secondary school education at the Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School and attended St. Augustine's College. Botchwey held an LL.B. from the University of Ghana, a LL.M from Yale Law School, and a doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School. He taught at the University of Zambia, the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Ghana.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 Laura Wallace, Deepening Structural Reform in Africa, Lessons from East Asia, Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 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
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.