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Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong

By Morten , Jerven

Book information

Publisher
Zed books
Year
2015
ISBN
1783601337, 978-1-78360-133-2, 978-1-78360-132-5, 978-1-78360-134-9, 978-1-78360-135-6, 978-1-78360-136-3
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2204281 bytes)
Series
African Arguments
Pages
176\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

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.

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