Title:	The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, 1960–2000
Authors:	benno j. ndulu stephen a . o ’c o n n e l l robert h. bates paul collier chukwuma c. soludo
Keywords:	Regional Development
Issue Date:	2008
Publisher:	Cambriidge UP
Description:	Throughout many of the first decades following independence, Africa’s economies failed to grow; indeed in 2000 per capita incomes in several countries were lower than they had been in 1960. In this two-volume study, the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) probes the nature and the roots of Africa’s economic performance in the first decades of indepen- dence. We seek to describe Africa’s growth experience in the latter decades of the twentieth century, to account for it, and to extract lessons to guide future policy-making in the continent. The timing of this two-volume assessment could not be more propitious. Debates over growth strategy have renewed as the region emerges from decades of economic decline and policy reform. Growth itself reignited in the mid-1990s, supported by policy reforms and also by rising commodity prices, a revival of aid flows, and the resolution of costly civil conflicts. What constitutes a pro-growth policy environment? What constrains the achieve- ment of that environment? These questions were central to this examination of Africa’s immediate past. The answers to them should feature in debates over how best to secure its economic future.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/28671
ISBN:	978-0-511-36669-7
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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