Dambisa Moyo

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Dambisa Moyo (2009)

Dambisa Felicia Moyo (born February 2, 1969 in Lusaka , Zambia ) is an American economist .

Life

Dambisa Moyo comes from Zambia and has lived in the USA since the early 1990s when she continued her education there on a scholarship. She first studied chemistry at the American University in Washington, DC and completed an MBA in finance there after completing her bachelor's degree . She also graduated from the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University a Master Accounts and received from the University of Oxford a DPhil in Economics .

She initially worked for the World Bank from 1993 to 1995 and for Goldman Sachs from 2001 to 2008 in the areas of debt capital markets, hedge funds and the global economy.

Moyo is a member of the Center for International Business and Management (CIBAM) at Cambridge University and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).

In her book Dead Aid (2009) shows the developing countries on ways to finance their own development, rather than relying on the funds of development assistance to leave - they missed for keeping destructive. The foreword of the book, which has sold more than 7 million times, was written by Niall Ferguson of Harvard University .

In 2009 the World Economic Forum honored Dambisa Moyo for her work in the field of microfinance (explicit example: Kiva ) as one of the Young Global Leaders .

Time magazine voted her among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009.

Dambisa Moyo was a participant in the 2010 Bilderberg Conference .

Fonts

  • Essays on the determinants of components of savings in developing countries. Dissertation , University of Oxford , Oxford 2002
  • The impact of pension reform on the capital markets. Goldman, Sachs & Co. , New York 2005, Series: Global economics paper. No. 128
  • Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa. Allen Lane Publishers, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84614-006-8 .
    • German: Dead Aid. Why development aid doesn't work and what Africa can do better . From the English by H. Lorenzen, Haffmans & Tolkemitt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942989-01-5
  • How the West was Lost. Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the stark Choices ahead . Allen Lane Publishers, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-846-14235-2 .
    • German: The fall of the West. Do we have a chance in the new economic order? . Piper, Munich / Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-492-05376-1 .
  • Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World . Basic Books, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0465028283
  • Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth ?? and How to Fix It . Basic Books, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0465097463

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christine Brinck : Development Aid . Contra bono. In: The time . May 28, 2009, No. 23
  2. ^ Adrian Humphreys: Why aid to Africa must stop: Interview with Dambisa Moyo . Quoted from: National Post , May 30, 2009.
  3. ↑ World Economic Forum: Young Global Leader Honorees 2009 (PDF), p. 14.
  4. ↑ Profiles & Awards
personal data
SURNAME Moyo, Dambisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moyo, Dambisa Felicia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zambian economist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Lusaka