TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jerven,Morten
ED  - International African Institute,
ED  - Royal African Society,
ED  - World Peace Foundation,
TI  - Africa: why economists get it wrong 
SN  - 9781783601332
AV  - HC800 .J45 2015
U1  - 330.96 22
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books, in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, World Peace Foundation
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Africa
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Economics
N2  - Reframes the debate about Africa's growth or lack thereof, challenging mainstream accounts of African economic history; 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.--Publisher website
ER  -