Morten Jerven

The Wealth and Poverty of African States

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Produktbeschreibung

A new account of economic performance and state development in African countries across the long twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781108424592
• ISBN-10: 1108424597
• Artikelnr.: 62311842

Autorenporträt

Morten Jerven has a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. His previous publications include Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It (2013) and Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Overview of the book
1. A new economic history for Africa?
2. Seeing like an African state in the twentieth century
3. New data and new perspectives on economic growth in Africa
4. State capacity across the twentieth century: evidence from taxation with Thilo Albers and Marvin Suesse
5. Wages and poverty: from roots of poverty to trajectories of living standards
6. Conclusion
List of references
Endnotes
Index.