Africa's Turn?

Name: Africa's Turn?
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ISBN: 9780262012898

ISBN-10: 0262012898

ISBN-13: 9780262012898

Edition: 2009

Authors: Edward Miguel, William R. Easterly, Deborah Chasman

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By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While "economic miracles" in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass destitution, and ranked lowest in the world in just about every economic and social indicator. Working in Busia, a small Kenyan border town, economist Edward Miguel began to notice something different starting in 1997: modest but steady economic progress, with new construction projects, flower markets, shops, and ubiquitous cell phones. In Africa's Turn? Miguel tracks a decade of comparably hopeful economic…

Book details

List price: $7.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/14/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Edward Miguel, coauthor with Raymond Fisman of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations, is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center of Evalulations for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley.