The Wealth and Poverty of African States

Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century

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Morten Jerven

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New Approaches to Economic and Social History

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A wealth of new data have been unearthed in recent years on African economic growth, wages, living standards, and taxes. In The Wealth and Poverty of African States, Morten Jerven shows how these findings transform our understanding of African economic development. He focuses on the central themes and questions that these state records can answer, tracing how African states evolved over time and the historical footprint they have left behind. By connecting the history of the colonial and postcolonial periods, he reveals an aggregate pattern of long-run growth from the late nineteenth century into the 1970s, giving way to widespread failure and decline in the 1980s, and then followed by two decades of expansion since the late 1990s. The result is a new framework for understanding the causes of poverty and wealth and the trajectories of economic growth and state development in Africa across the twentieth century.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

January 13th, 2022

Author

Morten Jerven

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

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Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

280

Series

New Approaches to Economic and Social History

Dimensions

156x236x17

ISBN-13

9781108424592

Product ID

35171452

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