James Pickett is Professor and Director of the David Livingstone Institute at the University of Strathclyde and Adviser to the African Development Bank. He has been Special Economic Adviser to the UN Economic Commission for Africa and consultant to UNIDO, ILO, UNDP, the Ford Foundation, the OECD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the EEC, the ODA and the ECA. Much of his work has been on technology, and he has a long-standing interest in Ethiopia and Ghana. He was a member of an ILO (JASPA) mission to Ethiopia in 1982. Hans Singer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex and Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies. His teachers included Schumpeter and Keynes. After teaching and conducting research at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow, he spent twenty years at the UN before returning to British academic life in 1969, when he joined the IDS. Among his many publications is a particularly famous paper on the 'Distribution of gains between investing and borrowing countries'.

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• 1. Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa 2. Ghana’s Experience with Structural Adjustment: Some Lessons 3. Ghana’s Economic Reforms, 1983-7: Origins, Achievements and Limitations 4. The Volta River Project: for Whom the Smelter Tolled 5. Public-Sector Pay: the Case of Sudan 6. Economic Integration/Co-ordination in Africa: the Dream Lives, but how can it be Lived? 7. Economic Integration in Africa: A New Phase 8. Intra-African Trade 9. The Optimum Amount of Development Assistance 10. The Role of Food Aid 11. Social Development in Africa: Perspective, Reality and Promise 12. The Low-Income Economies of Sub-Saharan Africa: problems and Prospects.