Toward a better world : memoirs of a life in international and development economics

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Toward a better world : memoirs of a life in international and development economics

Gerry Helleiner

University of Toronto Press, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-308) and index

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Toward a Better World describes the life, times and perspectives of Gerry Helleiner, a Canadian activist and university-based economist, who worked for roughly 40 years with developing countries and international organizations. In his memoir, Toward a Better World, Helleiner, recounts the profound early experiences in Africa that propelled him into a rewarding career devoted to research, advice and teaching in international economics, economic development and global poverty reduction. Describing himself as privileged, Toward a Better World recounts his early life as a young academic, having first landed in Africa in the 1960s for the purpose of research for Yale University. Detailing both successes and setbacks, frustrations and hopes, Helleiner, conveys his often difficult, yet transformative, experiences in Nigeria and Tanzania, missions in Uganda and South Africa, and witnesses the wavering efforts being made towards poverty alleviation in international organisations . Providing lively behind-the-scene accounts of multilateral economic meetings in the 1970s through the 1990s, Helleiner addresses his engagement with economic policymakers, his views often challenging common practice. In Toward a Better World, Helleiner speaks to his early motivation as a young man in Africa, and his lifework as a practicing economist determined to make a positive effort in addressing global poverty.

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Glossary Preface Introduction and Overview I. Beginnings 1. Early years 2. Undergraduate Life 3. The Yale Years Graduate Study in Economics Beginning a Career in Academic Economics II. An International and Development Economist in Africa 4. Nigeria 5. Tanzania 6. Uganda The Commonwealth Post-Idi Amin Mission Missions with Museveni - 1986 and 1993 7. South Africa 8. AERC - Macroeconomic Background and Early Days 9. More African Capacity Building - ACBF III. An International and Development Economist in International Organisations 10. UN Activities: Satisfaction and Frustration UNCTAD UNICEF UN Secretary-General`s Task Forces Committee for Development Planning International Labour Organisation 11. Sonny Times at the Commonwealth Secretariat Guyana - Mission Impossible . Cool Relations with the IMF 13.Ambivalent Relations with the World Bank 14. Life with the G24 15. Interlude at IFPRI 16. Wilder with WIDER IV. An International and Development Economist in Canada 17. IDRC - Again and Again 18. The North-South Institute - Present at the Creation (and Demise) 19. Trying to Influence Canadian Foreign Policy 20. Political Economy and Economics at the University of Toronto V. Reflections on a Life in International and Development Economics 21. Intellectual Currents 22. Some Reflections for Others

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