Professor Mushtaq Khan will discuss making anti-corruption effective: a new approach. Dr Uche Igwe is discussant for the lecture.
Mushtaq Khan is a professor of Economics at SOAS University of London and Chief Executive of the FCDO-funded SOAS-ACE (SOAS Anti-Corruption Evidence) Research Partnership Consortium. He is an institutional economist working on the challenges of policy implementation in developing countries, including anti-corruption policies and industrial policies. His work developed the political settlements framework and applied it to the analysis of policy implementation in different contexts. His research has spanned a number of countries including Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Palestine, Nigeria, Tanzania and South Africa.
Dr Uche Igwe is currently a visiting fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the International Centre for Policing and Security, the University of South Wales. He currently serves as a member of the Executive Consultation Group of Blue Dot Network, a global multi-stakeholder initiative for sustainable infrastructure finance and governance.
Dr Duncan Green is Senior Strategic Adviser at Oxfam GB, Professor in Practice in International Development at the London School of Economics, honorary Professor of International Development at Cardiff University and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies. He is author of How Change Happens (OUP, October 2016) and From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World (Oxfam International, 2008, second edition 2012). His daily development blog can be found on www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/.
This talk is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice, 2021/22, series, a high-profile lecture series run by the Department of International Development at LSE and organised by Professor James Putzel and Professor in Practice Duncan Green.
The Department of International Development promotes interdisciplinary postgraduate teaching and research on processes of social, political and economic development and change.
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