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008			201109s2020 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2020930019
020			_a9780198832331 (Hbk) _q(hardback) : _c1650.00 birr
020			_z9780192568380 _q(epub)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
042			_apcc
082			_aAFR 338.9009 Cra 2020
100	1		_aCramer, Christopher, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAfrican economic development : _bevidence, theory, policy / _cChristopher Cramer, John Sender, Arkebe Oqubay.
250			_aNew edition.
260			_aOxford, UK : _bOUP, _cc2020.
263			_a2007
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2020
300			_a396 p.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"This book challenges conventional wisdoms about economic performance and possible policies for economic development in African countries. Its starting point is the striking variation in African economic performance. Unevenness and inequalities form a central fact of African economic experiences. The authors highlight not only differences between countries, but also variations within countries, differences often organized around distinctions of gender, class, and ethnic identity. For example, neo-natal mortality and school dropout have been reduced, particularly for some classes of women in some areas of Africa. Horticultural and agribusiness exports have grown far more rapidly in some countries than in others. These variations (and many others) point to opportunities for changing performance, reducing inequalities, learning from other policy experiences, and escaping the ties of structure, and the legacies of a colonial past. The book rejects teleological illusions and Eurocentric prejudice, but it does pay close attention to the results of policy in more industrialized parts of the world. Seeing the contradictions of capitalism for what they are - fundamental and enduring - may help policy officials protect themselves against the misleading idea that development can be expected to be a smooth, linear process, or that it would be were certain impediments suddenly removed. The authors criticize a wide range of orthodox and heterodox economists, especially for their cavalier attitude to evidence. Drawing on their own decades of research and policy experience, they combine careful use of available evidence from a range of African countries with political economy insights (mainly derived from Kalecki, Kaldor and Hischman) to make the policy case for specific types of public sector investment"-- _cProvided by publisher.
700	1		_aSender, John, _eauthor.
700	1		_aOqubay, Arkebe, _eauthor.
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