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Bates; Ken Banks; Olu Ajakaiye; Rosamond Naylor; David N. Weil; Jeremy M. Weinstein; Smita Singh; Paul Collier; Rachel Glennerster; III Real Progress; Acknowledgements ; Appendix of Resources ; About the Contributors 330 $a"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?" 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