Africa's Development in Historical Perspective

Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
ISBN-10
1107041155
ISBN-13
9781107041158
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
541
Language
English
Published
2014-08-11
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
James Robinson, Robert H. Bates, Emmanuel Akyeampong

Description

Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.

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