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For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of Africa-centered economic research was not enhanced by the well-known limitations of economic data across the continent. Moreover, development economics itself was not always fashionable, and the broader discipline of economics has had its ups and downs, and has been undergoing a major identity crisis because it failed to predict the Great Recession.
Times have changed: many leading researchers-including a few Nobel laureates-have taken the subject of Africa and economics seriously enough to devote their expertise and creativity to it. They have been amply rewarded: the richness, complexities, and subtleties of African societies, civilizations, rationalities, and ways of living, have helped renew the humanities and the social sciences-and economics in particular-to the point that the continent has become the next major intellectual frontier to researchers from around the world.
In collecting some of the most authoritative statements about the science of economics and its concepts in the African context, this ^lhandbook (the first of two volumes) opens up the diverse acuity of commentary on exciting topics, and in the process challenges and stimulates the quest for knowledge. Wide-ranging in its scope, themes, language, and approaches, this volume explores, examines, and assesses economic thinking on Africa, and Africa's contribution to the discipline. The editors bring a set of powerful resources to this endeavor, most notably a team of internationally-renowned economists whose diverse viewpoints are complemented by the perspectives of philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists.
Contents
Célestin Monga and Justin Yifu Lin: Introduction: Africa, the Next Intellectual Frontier
Part I: Concepts
1: Fabien Eboussi Boulaga: Prolegomena to Economics as an African Science: A Philosophical Meditation
2: Kathleen Beegle, Calogero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, and Alberto Zezza: Households and Income in Africa
3: Catherine Guirkinger and Jean-Philippe Platteau: Transformation of African Farm-cum-Family Structures
4: Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft: The Economics of Marriage in North Africa: A Unifying Theoretical Framework
5: Christopher Malikane: The Theory of the Firm in the African Context
6: Jane I. Guyer: Markets and Urban Provisioning
7: Alan Gelb, Christian J. Meyer, and Vijaya Ramachandran: Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Africa's Missing Middle
8: Stephen Golub and Faraz Hayat: Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment in Africa
9: Mthuli Ncube: Inclusive Growth in Africa
10: Abebe Shimeles: Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
11: Arne Bigsten: Dimensions of African Inequality
12: Richard Joseph: Inclusive Growth and Developmental Governance: The Next African Frontiers
13: Melissa A. Thomas: Economics and the Study of Corruption in Africa
14: Francois Bourguignon: Thoughts on Development: The African Experience
15: Hippolyte Fofack: The Idea of Economic Development: Views from Africa
Part II: Methodological Issues
16: Célestin Monga: Principles of Economics: African Challenges
17: Felwine Sarr: Economics and Culture in Africa
18: Laura Camfield: The Economics of Non-Cognitive Skills
19: Andrew Berg, Shu-Chun S. Yang, and Luis-Felipe Zanna: Modeling African Economies: A DSGE Approach
20: Morten Jerven: Measuring Economic Progress in the African Context
21: Patrick Guillaumont: Measuring Structural Economic Vulnerability in Africa
22: Célestin Monga: Measuring Democracy: An Economic Approach
23: Olumide Taiwo and Julius A. Agbor: Measurement and Analysis of Competitiveness
Part III: Historical Trajectories and Economic Landscape
24: Paul Collier: Africa's New Economic Opportunities
25: Christopher Cramer and Ha-Joon Chang: Tigers or Tiger Prawns? The African Growth 'Tragedy' and 'Renaissance' in Perspective
26: Warren C. Whatley: The Economic Legacies of the African Slave Trades
27: Gareth Austin: The Economics of Colonialism in Africa
28: Olu Ajakaije and Afeikhena Jerome: Public-Private Interface for Inclusive Development in Africa
29: Ibrahim Ahmed Elbadawi and Nadir Abdellatif Mohammed: Natural Resources in Africa: Precious Boon or Precious Bane?
30: Xubei Luo: Volatility and Vulnerability
31: Maria E. (Mila) Freire, Somik Lall, and Danny Leipziger: Africa's Urbanization: Challenges and Opportunities
32: Tomonori Sudo: Environmental and Climate Change Issues in Africa
33: Ahmadou Aly Mbaye and Nancy Benjamin: Informality, Growth and Development in Africa
34: Scott D. Taylor: Capitalism and African Business Cultures
Part IV: The Economics of Political Transformation
35: Takaaki Masaki and Nicolas van de Walle: The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1982-2012
36: Raj M. Desai, Anders Olofsgård, and Tarik M. Yousef: The Economics of Authoritarianism in North Africa
37: Mustapha Kamel Nabli and Hakim Ben Hammouda: The Potential Economic Dividends of North African Revolutions
38: Anke Hoeffler: The Economics of Violent Conflict and War in Africa
39: Juliet Elu and Gregory Price: The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism in Africa
40: Mustapha Kamel Nabli and Hakim Ben Hammouda: The Political Economy of the New Arab Awakening
41: Roger B. Myerson: Democratic Decentralization and Economic Development
42: Nadareh Chamlou: The Economics of Happiness and Anger in North Africa
