Professor John Knight

Professor of Economics, Head of Department of Economics,
Fellow of St Edmund Hall

Biography

John Knight is a founder member of the Centre. He has conducted research on Africa for over 30 years, and currently devotes half his research time to Africa (the other half being on China). His main interests are in human resources, labour markets and income distribution. He has published research on Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Africa. Among his publications are Education, Productivity and Inequality: the East African Natural Experiment, (with Richard Sabot). He currently has research projects on unemployment in South Africa and on education in rural Ethiopia.

Publications

  • Knight, John B., 'Introduction: Human Capital in Economic Development', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 58 (1), pp. 5-8, 1996.
  • Appleton, Simon, John Hoddinott and John B. Knight, 'Primary education as an input into post-primary education: a neglected benefit', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 58 (1), pp. 211-219, 1996.
  • Knight, John B., 'Labour market issues in Zimbabwe: lessons for South Africa', South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 65 (1), pp. 69-98, 1997.
  • Knight, John B., 'Labour market policies and outcomes in post-independence Zimbabwe: lessons for South Africa', in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa: Economic Challenges and Policies for the Future, ed. Lennart Petersson, pp. 201-260. London: Routledge, 1998.
  • Hill, Catharine and John B. Knight, 'The diamond boom, expectations and economic management in Botswana', in Trade Shocks in Developing Countries, ed. Paul Collier, Jan Willem Gunning and associates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Jenkins, Carolyn and John B. Knight, Economic Policies and Outcomes in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, forthcoming.
  • Jenkins, Carolyn and John Knight, Neither Growth nor Equity: the Economic Decline of Zimbabwe, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, forthcoming 2000.