For the past two decades, mainstream economists who study African economic growth have been trying to explain something that never happened. Economists have focused almost exclusively on one question: Why has economic growth failed in Africa? You can read the motivation for my book...
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Tag: Why Nations Fail
Towards a new history of economic growth in Africa
Is it only me who thinks it is a bit strange that the most read book on African economic growth, the Bottom Billion, focuses on explaining why African economies are stuck in chronic failure of growth - while African economies on average has been...
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