Africa's Turn

Informationen zum Autor Edward Miguel! coauthor with Raymond Fisman of Economic Gangsters: Corruption! Violence! and the Poverty of Nations! is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center of Evalulations for Global Action at the University of California! Berkeley. William Easterly is the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press! 2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. He is Professor of Economics at New York University (Joint with Africa House)! Codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute! visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution! and Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington! DC. Klappentext Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy. Zusammenfassung Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.

About the author

Edward Miguel, coauthor with Raymond Fisman of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations, is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center of Evalulations for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley.

Product details

• Authors: Miguel, Edward Miguel, Edward (Associate Professor of Economics Miguel
• Assisted by: Deborah Chasman (Editor), Deborah (Co-Editor Chasman (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2009
• EAN: 9780262012898
• ISBN: 978-0-262-01289-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 118 mm x 285 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Boston Review Books; Africa's Turn?; Boston Review Books
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education