Description:
Recent years have seen a sustained efforts to explore the African development experience. The extant literature has offered a large set of explanations as to why the African development record has lagged behind that of other regions of the developing world. This new volume brings international contributors together to focus on the role of growth and institutions.
Review Quotes:
This volume throws new light on the factors that have contributed to the relatively inclusive growth pattern presently prevailing in Africa. The resurgence of growth in the last fifteen years, following a long period of stagnation, appears to be linked to major improvements in governance and economic freedom. In particular, the role of institutions is crucial to the current growth and development phase. A contribution of this book is to provide specific examples of successful developmental institutions in different African countries.
Erik Thorbecke, Professor of Economics at Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, USA.
This volume contributes to a much better and broader understanding of growth and development in Africa. It gives a key role to institutions, but also pays attention to bottlenecks--such as lack of absorptive capacity and innovation and to issues as health and poverty.
Rick van der Ploeg, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, UK.