Igor Karmiloff
The author is a retired UN staff member. Having worked as a simultaneous interpreter while attending university courses in journalism and development economics in New York and Paris, he spent over twenty years as first, research economist, then development programmer/planner and finally commercial policy adviser to the least developed group of countries. In the course of fieldwork, he contributed to writing two national 5-year plans, analysed the performance and shortcomings of over 15 countries, wrote several articles in "KYKLOS" on Soviet planning techniques and lectured widely at international seminars and university conferences on developmental policy problems. In particular, he wrote chapters on Zambia and Cameroon in "Manufacturing Africa" (Ed; R.Riddell) and several Working Papers for the Overseas Development Institute (London).
