Africa (ePub)
Why Economists Get It Wrong
(Sprache: Englisch)
'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'
Foreign Affairs
Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the...
Foreign Affairs
Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the...
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'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'
Foreign Affairs
Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.
What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, Morten Jerven fundamentally reframes the debate, challenging mainstream accounts of African economic history. Whilst for the past two decades experts have focused on explaining why there has been a 'chronic failure of growth' in Africa, Jerven shows that most African economies have been growing at a rapid pace since the mid nineties. In addition, African economies grew rapidly in the fifties, the sixties, and even into the seventies. Thus, African states were dismissed as incapable of development based largely on observations made during the 1980s and early 1990s. The result has been misguided analysis, and few practical lessons learned.
This is an essential account of the real impact economic growth has had on Africa, and what it means for the continent's future.
Foreign Affairs
Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.
What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, Morten Jerven fundamentally reframes the debate, challenging mainstream accounts of African economic history. Whilst for the past two decades experts have focused on explaining why there has been a 'chronic failure of growth' in Africa, Jerven shows that most African economies have been growing at a rapid pace since the mid nineties. In addition, African economies grew rapidly in the fifties, the sixties, and even into the seventies. Thus, African states were dismissed as incapable of development based largely on observations made during the 1980s and early 1990s. The result has been misguided analysis, and few practical lessons learned.
This is an essential account of the real impact economic growth has had on Africa, and what it means for the continent's future.
Autoren-Porträt von Morten Jerven
Morten Jerven is the author of Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It (2013); Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (2015); and The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century (2022). Jerven holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, is Professor of Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and is Visiting Professor in Economic History at Lund University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Morten Jerven
- 2015, 1. Auflage, 176 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 1783601353
- ISBN-13: 9781783601356
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.06.2015
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