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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.
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Economic policy, Economic development, Forecasting, Economics, Economic conditions, Africa, economic conditionsPlaces
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Africa: why economists get it wrong
2015, Zed Books, in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, World Peace Foundation
in English
1783601329 9781783601325
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-154) and index.
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