Wealth and Poverty of African States - Economic Growth, Living Standards Taxation Since Late Nineteenth

A new account of economic performance and state development in African countries across the long twentieth century.

List of contents

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Overview of the book; 1. A new economic history for Africa?; 2. Seeing like an African state in the twentieth century; 3. New data and new perspectives on economic growth in Africa; 4. State capacity across the twentieth century: evidence from taxation with Thilo Albers and Marvin Suesse; 5. Wages and poverty: from roots of poverty to trajectories of living standards; 6. Conclusion; List of references; Endnotes; Index.

About the author

Morten Jerven has a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. His previous publications include Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It (2013) and Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Morten Jerven, Jerven Morten
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781108424592
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42459-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: New Approaches to Economic and Social History; New Approaches to Economic and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, economic growth, African History