Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (African Arguments)

Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (African Arguments)

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 Â“Africa Rising,â€ 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 1990sÂ—and, until a collapse in the â€™70s and â€™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 Africaâ€™s past, present, and potential.
Country USA
Brand Zed Books
Manufacturer Zed Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2015-06-15
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781783601325

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