Kevin S. Nell is a professor of Economics at Johannesburg Business School, and his research interests are primarily in macroeconomics, with specific reference to developing countries. He has taught and published on topics such as financial development and growth; structural inflation and monetary policy; endogenous money; saving/investment causality; growth theory and empirics (the role of physical capital accumulation and technological progress); balance-of-payments-constrained growth; cross-country growth regressions; the long-run solvency constrain model in an open-economy context; the determinants of industrial development; and conditional convergence and premature deindustrialization. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kent.