Africa

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 Africas past, present, and potential.--Publisher website.

שנה

2015

שפה

English

סדרה

African arguments

הוצאה

Zed Books, in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, World Peace Foundation

מהדורות

1

עמודים

160

ISBN

9781783601325

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata