02716cam a22002537i 4500 21349351 20230531091530.0 200102s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng 2020930019 9780198832331 DLC eng rda DLC DLC f------ HC 800 .C73 2020 Cramer, Christopher, author. African economic development : evidence, theory, policy / Christopher Cramer, John Sender, and Arkebe Oqubay. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Minimal Level Cataloging Plus. DLC Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-303) and index. "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"-- Economic development Africa. lcc BOOKS HC 800 .C73 2020 31596 31596 0 0 lcc 0 0 MUC MUC GEN 2023-05-10 Purchase - Falcon Books 0 HC 800 .C73 2020 39379 2023-05-31 2023-05-31 BOOKS