Africa: why economists get it wrong
"For the first time in generations, Africa is spoken of these days with enthusiastic hope: no longer seen as a hopeless morass of poverty, the continent instead is described as "Africa Rising," a land of enormous economic potential that is just beginning to be tapped. With Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong, Morten Jerven offers a bracing corrective. Neither story, he shows, is accurate. In truth, most African economies have been growing rapidly since the 1990s-and, until a collapse in the '70…
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- Full title :Africa : why economists get it wrong / Morten Jerven.
Summary
"For the first time in generations, Africa is spoken of these days with enthusiastic hope: no longer seen as a hopeless morass of poverty, the continent instead is described as "Africa Rising," a land of enormous economic potential that is just beginning to be tapped. With Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong, Morten Jerven offers a bracing corrective. Neither story, he shows, is accurate. In truth, most African economies have been growing rapidly since the 1990s-and, until a collapse in the '70s and '80s, they had been growing reliably for decades. Puncturing weak analysis that relies too much on those two lost decades, Jerven redraws our picture of Africa's past, present, and potential."--Site web de l'éditeur.
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- Publication Date:2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Zed Books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
The Physical Object
- Description:160 pages : : illustrations, graphiques ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781783601332, 1783601337, 9781783601325, 1783601329
- oclc:ocn958867475
- LC Classification:HC800
- Dewey Decimal:330.9/6
Table of Contents
Misunderstanding economic growth in Africa -- Trapped in history? -- African growth recurring -- Africa's statistical tragedy?
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