Ethnic Diversity and Economic Instability in Africa - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Klappentext A challenge to the conventional idea that ethnic diversity is an important cause of Africa's poor economic performance. Zusammenfassung Scholars from across the social sciences challenge the conventional wisdom that ethnic diversity is an important cause of poor economic performance in Africa. Instead! the authors explore actual experiences of ethnicity in Africa! propose new methods of measuring and analysing diversity! and suggest how these findings may influence policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on the contributors; Introduction; Findings of development economics and their limitations Gustav Ranis; Part I. De-mystifying Ethnicity: 1. Ethnic patriotism and markets in African history John Lonsdale; 2. The concept of ethnicity: strengths and limitations for quantitative analysis Graham Brown and Arnim Langer; 3. Essence of ethnicity: an African perspective Bethwell Allan Ogot; Part II. Does Ethnic Diversity Hinder Economic Development?: 4. State, ethnicity and economy in Africa Yash Pal Ghai; 5. Ethnic politics, economic reform and democratisation in Africa Bruce J. Berman; 6. Evidence from spatial correlation of poverty and income in Kenya Nobuaki Hamaguchi; Part III. Relationships between Ethnicity and Stability: 7. Belonging, exclusion and ethnic competition Parker Shipton; 8. Horizontal inequalities and market instability in Africa Graham Brown and Frances Stewart; 9. Impact of ethnicities on market outcome: results of market experiments in Kenya Ken-Ichi Shimomura and Takehiko Yamato; Conclusion: key findings of our interdisciplinary dialogue Hiroyuki Hino; Author index; Subject index.

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• Authors: Hiroyuki Hino, Hiroyuki (Kobe University Hino, Hiroyuki Lonsdale Hino, HINO HIROYUKI LONSDALE JOHN RANI
• Assisted by: Hiroyuki Hino (Editor), Hiroyuki (Kobe University Hino (Editor), John Lonsdale (Editor), John (University of Cambridge) Lonsdale (Editor), Gustav Ranis (Editor), Gustav (Yale University Ranis (Editor), Frances Stewart (Editor), Frances (University of Oxford) Stewart (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107025998
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02599-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous