The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics Volume 1 Context and Concepts 1st Edition by Célestin Monga, Justin Yifu Lin ISBN 978-0199687114 0199687110
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ISBN 10: 0199687110
ISBN 13: 978-0199687114
Author: Célestin Monga, Justin Yifu Lin
For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of Africa-centered economic research was not enhanced by the well-known limitations of economic data across the continent. Moreover, development economics itself was not always fashionable, and the broader discipline of economics has had its ups and downs, and has been undergoing a major identity crisis because it failed to predict the Great Recession.
Times have changed: many leading researchers-including a few Nobel laureates-have taken the subject of Africa and economics seriously enough to devote their expertise and creativity to it. They have been amply rewarded: the richness, complexities, and subtleties of African societies, civilizations, rationalities, and ways of living, have helped renew the humanities and the social sciences-and economics in particular-to the point that the continent has become the next major intellectual frontier to researchers from around the world.
In collecting some of the most authoritative statements about the science of economics and its concepts in the African context, this ^lhandbook (the first of two volumes) opens up the diverse acuity of commentary on exciting topics, and in the process challenges and stimulates the quest for knowledge. Wide-ranging in its scope, themes, language, and approaches, this volume explores, examines, and assesses economic thinking on Africa, and Africa’s contribution to the discipline. The editors bring a set of powerful resources to this endeavor, most notably a team of internationally-renowned economists whose diverse viewpoints are complemented by the perspectives of philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists.
Table of contents:
PART I CONCEPTS
1. Prolegomena to Economics as an African Science:
A Philosophical Meditation
FABIEN EBOUSSI BOULAGA
2. Households and Income in Africa
KATHLEEN BEEGLE, CALOGERO CARLETTO, BENJAMIN DAVIS, AND ALBERTO ZEZZA
3. Transformation of African Farm-cum-Family Structures
CATHERINE GUIRKINGER AND JEAN-PHILIPPE PLATTEAU
4. The Economics of Marriage in North Africa: A Unifying Theoretical Framework
RAGUI ASSAAD AND CAROLINE KRAFFT
5. The Theory of the Firm in the African Context
CHRISTOPHER MALIKANE
6. Markets and Urban Provisioning
JANE I. GUYER
7. Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Africa’s Missing Middle
ALAN GELB, CHRISTIAN J. MEYER, AND VIJAYA RAMACHANDRAN
8. Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment in Africa
STEPHEN GOLUB AND FARAZ HAYAT
9. Inclusive Growth in Africa
MTHULI NCUBE
10. Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
ABEBE SHIMELES
11. Dimensions of African Inequality
ARNE BIGSTEN
12. Inclusive Growth and Developmental Governance:
The Next African Frontiers
RICHARD JOSEPH
13. Economics and the Study of Corruption in Africa
M. A. THOMAS
14. Thoughts on Development: The African Experience
FRANÇOIS BOURGUIGNON
15. The Idea of Economic Development: Views from Africa
HIPPOLYTE FOFACK
PART II METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
16. Principles of Economics: African Counter-Narratives
CÉLESTIN MONGA
17. Economics and Culture in Africa
FELWINE SARR
18. The Economics of Non-Cognitive Skills
LAURA CAMFIELD
19. Modeling African Economies: A DSGE Approach
ANDREW BERG, SHU-CHUN S. YANG, AND LUIS-FELIPE ZANNA
20. Measuring Economic Progress in the African Context
MORTEN THE WOLVERINE
21. Measuring Structural Economic Vulnerability in Africa
PATRICK GUILLAUMONT
22. Measuring Democracy: An Economic Approach
CÉLESTIN MONGA
23. Measurement and Analysis of Competitiveness
OLUMIDE TAIWO AND JULIUS A. AGBOR
PART III HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES AND ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE
24. Africa’s New Economic Opportunities
PAUL COLLIER
25. Tigers or Tiger Prawns? The African Growth “Tragedy” and “Renaissance” in Perspective
CHRISTOPHER CRAMER AND HA-JOON CHANG
26. The Economic Legacies of the African Slave Trades
WARREN C. WHATLEY
27. The Economics of Colonialism in Africa
GARETH AUSTIN
28. Public-Private Interface for Inclusive Development in Africa
OLU AJAKAIYE AND AFEIKHENA JEROME
29. Natural Resources in Africa: Precious Boon or Precious Bane?
IBRAHIM AHMED ELBADAWI AND NADIR
ABDELLATIF MOHAMMED
30. Volatility and Vulnerability
XUBEI LUO
31. Africa’s Urbanization: Challenges and Opportunities
MARIA E. (MILA) FREIRE,
SOMIK LALL AND DANNY LEIPZIGER
32. Environmental and Climate Change Issues in Africa
TOMONORI SUDO
33. Informality, Growth, and Development in Africa
AHMADOU ALY Mbaye and Nancy Benjamin
34. Capitalism and African Business Cultures
SCOTT D. TAYLOR
PART IV THE ECONOMICS OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION
35. The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1982-2012 TAKAAKI MASAKI AND NICOLAS VAN DE WALLE
36. The Economics of Authoritarianism in North Africa RAJ M. DESAI, ANDERS OLOFSGÅRD, AND TARIK M. YOUSEF
37. The Potential Economic Dividends of North African Revolutions MUSTAPHA KAMEL NABLI AND HAKIM BEN HAMMOUDA
38. The Economics of Violent Conflict and War in Africa ANKE HOEFFLER
39. The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism in Africa JULIET ELU AND GREGORY PRICE
40. The Political Economy of the New Arab Awakening MUSTAPHA KAMEL NABLI AND HAKIM BEN HAMMOUDA
41. Democratic Decentralization and Economic Development ROGER B. MYERSON
42. The Economics of Happiness and Anger in North Africa NADEREH CHAMLOU
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