Brief personal history

I retired in 1997 after over 30 years of teaching and research within the School and of consultancy and research within the Overseas Development Group. I am an economist by training with particular interests in the international economy, industrialisation, industrial policy and cost-benefit analysis and still active in research, consultancy and writing. My current research is on global imbalances in the international economy, the costs and benefits of rural water supply and sanitation facilities, the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK’s health sector and on industrialisation in South Africa.

Key publications include

2009, November November 2009; The Private Finance Initiative; Supplementary Evidence to the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords
click here to download the ten page report (MS Word)

2009, June; Private Gain, Public Loss; The Private Finance Initiative and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital; A Case Study
click here to download a three page briefing (PDF)
click here to download a three page briefing (MS Word)
click here to download the complete 108-page report (PDF)
click here to download the complete 108-page report (MS Word)

2009 (forthcoming); “The Eastern Cape economy – socio-economic justice and imperatives for change” in The State of the Eastern Cape, Human Sciences Research Council Press, South Africa

2009 (forthcoming); Three chapters in a book on the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Supply to be published by the World Health Organisation

2006; "An Industrial Development Strategy Framework for the Eastern Cape" a report prepared for the Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council (ECSECC), South Africa, June
 
2006; "The economic impacts of China and India on Sub-Saharan Africa; Trends and Prospects" with Rhys Jenkins, Journal of Asian Economics, 17(2006), 207-225

2006; "The Asian Drivers and Sub-Saharan Africa", with Rhys Jenkins, IDS Bulletin, Vol 37, no 1, January.

2005; “The Effect of China and India’s Growth and Trade Liberalisation on Poverty in Africa”, Report for the Department for International Development (DFID) with Rhys Jenkins, Enterplan, May

1991; Why Economists Disagree; The Political Economy of Economics, with Ken Cole and John Cameron, London, Longmans; second edition, 295pp.

1985; The Fragmented World; competing theories of trade, money and crisis, London, Methuen, 1985, 350pp.

Telephone number: +44 (0) 1603 451871

Email address: c.edwards4@btinternet.com