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- Benny_Dembitzer abstract "Benny Dembitzer is a British economist who has specialized in the economics of developing countries, particularly on the continent of Africa. He was a member of the team that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.He studied economics at Cambridge University under Amartya Sen, and subsequently followed him briefly in teaching at Trinity College in the mid 1960s. He was on the staff of the Economist Intelligence Unit in London for three and a half years. He directed the work of the Fund for Research and Investment for the Development of Africa (FRIDA) in twenty African countries in the 1970s. At the Commonwealth Secretariat he was for two years adviser on industrial development in the (then) nine Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) Countries. Over the years he has worked in 35 countries in Africa and 2 in Asia. They include Pakistan for the Aga Khan; Ethiopia for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO); Lesotho for the International Trade Centre (ITC); Djibouti for the World Bank; Guinea and Indonesia for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He also drafted the UNDP five-year economic development plans for both The Gambia and Liberia. For five years he was economic adviser to the Dutch aid programme in Indonesia. He worked as a consultant for the Department for International Development (DfID) on Fairtrade. In 2003 he worked with UNAIDS in London and Addis Ababa.He has worked for various voluntary agencies, including OXFAM in Ethiopia; CARE International in Lesotho; International Voluntary Service (IVS; now Skillshare Africa) in Botswana, Cameroun, Lesotho and Swaziland; War on Want in Cameroun. In the early 1970s he undertook undercover missions for Amnesty International in Gabon, Cameroun and Chad. He set up the first shop in London dealing with what is now called Fairtrade in 1973. He was European Director ofInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) when it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. He undertook consultancies for Transparency International, UK, on corruption in the arms trade. In 1985 he became involved with relief operations kick-started by Bob Geldof in Ethiopia.From 1987 to 2006 he ran the annual Global Partnership, an event bringing together some hundreds of British voluntary agencies working in development. During 2007 and 2008 he was economic adviser to Africa Invest, a fund investing in agriculture in Malawi. Over the last 10 years he has taught economics at various times at Cranfield, London SouthBank, Greenwich and London Metropolitan Universities. He currently runs courses in London on international development for staff of a variety of voluntary agencies and others interested in the problems of the Global South.He wrote The Attack on World Poverty: Going Back to Basics in 2009.".
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