03710nam 2200685 450 991081551480332120200520144314.01-78360-135-31-78360-134-5(CKB)3710000000431244(EBL)2068338(SSID)ssj0001550409(PQKBManifestationID)16166005(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001550409(PQKBWorkID)14810835(PQKB)10052276(MiAaPQ)EBC2068338(Au-PeEL)EBL2068338(CaPaEBR)ebr11065813(CaONFJC)MIL798031(OCoLC)910935343(PPN)200423827(EXLCZ)99371000000043124420150624h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrica why economists get it wrong /Morten JervenLondon, [England] :Zed Books in association with International African Institute Royal African Society World Peace Foundation,2015.©20151 online resource (172 p.)African ArgumentsDescription based upon print version of record.1-78360-132-9 1-78360-133-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover ; African Arguments; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; From Explaining Slow Growth to Explaining Low Income ; How Economists Have Misunderstood Growth in Africa ; 1: Misunderstanding Economic Growth in Africa; Correlation Is Not Causation ; Garbage In, Garbage Out; The African Dummy Variable ; Misrepresenting the African Economic Growth Record ; The Subtraction Approach ; Aid Dependency ; Deficient Public Services ; Bad Policies ; Bad Governance ; A Leap of Faith ; 2: Trapped in History?The Historical Evidence of Growth Explaining Variation in Income 'Today'; Root Causes of African Underdevelopment ; Initial Conditions: Bad Geography and Wrong Technology ; Ethnicity ; Settlers and Institutions ; 'Causal History' or 'Compression of History'?; Ceteris Paribus: History Matters ; 3: African Growth Recurring; The Political Economy of Episodic Growth in Africa ; The Importance of Economic Growth ; From Slavery to Cash Crops: Growth in Precolonial and Colonial Africa ; Growth in Africa Since 1950 ; Prospects for Growth ; World Markets ; Political ConditionsThe Factors of Production Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth: Some Precautions ; 4: Africa's Statistical Tragedy?; Benchmark Years ; How Much Do We Know About Income and Growth in Africa? ; Correlates of Growth ; Interpreting the Growth Evidence ; The Politics of African Economic Statistics ; Conclusion ; How We are Misled by Mainstream Economics ; Learning from History ; Getting African Economies Right ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Back CoverAn accessible, eye-opening account that fundamentally challenges mainstream accounts of economic growth in AfricaAfrican arguments.Economic developmentAfricaEconomicsAfricaAfricaEconomic conditionsEconomic developmentEconomics330.96Jerven Morten1978-1660767World Peace Foundation.International African Institute.Royal African Society.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815514803321Africa4112753UNINA