Akbar Noman
Senior Fellow

Akbar Noman is an economist with wide-ranging experience of policy analysis and formulation in a variety of developing and transition economies, having worked extensively for the World Bank as well as other international organizations and at senior levels of government. He combines teaching at SIPA with being a Senior Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue where his tasks continue to include policy work with governments. His other academic appointments have been at Oxford University (where he was also a student) and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
Books
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The Quality of Growth in Africa
09/17/19 Book
Joseph Stiglitz (Editor), Akbar Noman (Editor), Ravi Kanbur (Editor)
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Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa
12/03/15 Book
Akbar Noman (Editor), Joseph Stiglitz (Editor)
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Good Growth and Governance in Africa
04/05/12 Book
Howard Stein (Editor), Joseph Stiglitz (Editor), Akbar Noman (Editor), Kwesi Botchwey (Editor)
Policy Briefs
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Joint Statement of IPD Experts on Global Burden-Sharing for Climate Change
07/07/10 Policy Brief #4
Akbar Noman, Sivan Kartha, Jose Maria Figueres, Ato Newai Gebre-Ab, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Manoj Roy, Ambuj Sagar, Wolfram Schlenker, Willi Semmler, Stephen Spratt, Nicholas Stern, Michelle Chan, Hirofumi Uzawa, Joseph Stiglitz, Kirit Parikh, Deepak Nayyar, Mohan Munasinghe, Louis Lemkow, Martin Khor, Robert Hahn, Luis Miguel Galindo, Zhiyuan Cui, Kevin Conrad, John Broome, Charlotte Billingham, Clive Agnew, Amar Bhattacharya, Frank Ackerman
Articles / Op-Eds
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Economic Threat to Democratic Transition
02/25/08 Article / Op-Ed in Daily Times
Akbar Noman
Working Papers
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Innovative Financing for Infrastructure in Low Income Countries
07/01/11 Working Paper #258
Akbar Noman
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La Gran Recesión y el Mundo en Desarrollo
08/03/10 Working Paper #249
Stephany Griffith-Jones, Juliana Vallejo, Ariane Ortiz, José Antonio Ocampo, Akbar Noman
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The Great Recession and the Developing World
04/12/10 Working Paper #244
Stephany Griffith-Jones, Akbar Noman, José Antonio Ocampo, Ariane Ortiz, Judith Tyson, Juliana Vallejo
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Good Growth and Governance for Africa
01/04/10 Working Paper #242
Akbar Noman, Joseph Stiglitz
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Scoring Millenium Goals
08/31/05 Working Paper #75
Akbar Noman
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