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.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

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).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Morten Jerven, Jerven Morten
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781108424592
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42459-2
• Pagine: 280
• Serie: New Approaches to Economic and Social History; New Approaches to Economic and
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, economic growth, African History