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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:The political economy of Africa
Editor:Padayachee, VishnuISNI
Year:2010
Pages:435
Language:English
City of publisher:London
Publisher:Routledge
ISBN:0415480388; 9780415480383; 0415480396; 9780415480390
Geographic terms:Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Kenya
Mozambique
Senegal
South Africa
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Subjects:political economy
economic conditions
economic policy
Abstract:This book was commissioned to give a survey of the political economy of Africa. After Introducing the African economy by Vishnu Padayachee and Keith Hart, it is divided into four parts. Part One is African Political Economy in Overview and contains contributions by Peter Lawrence on the roots of the African tragedy; African economic growth 1960-2008 by Bill Freund; from the political economy of development to development economics by Ben Fine. Part Two is Analytical Perspectives on Africa and has articles on agro-pessimism and agrarian change in Sub-Saharan Africa by Carlos Oya; taxation and resource mobilization by Jonathan Di John; external borrowing and capital flight by Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce; democratising social welfare by Stephen Devereux and Francis Lund; aid and development by Carlos Oya and Nicholas Pons-Vignon; employment, poverty and inclusive development by James Heintz; street trading by Caroline Skinner; and Africa and ICT by Nicholas Pejout. The third part contains case studies on agricultural policy in Kenya and Senegal by Ward Anseeuw; industrialization and State intervention in Mozambique by Alex Warren-Rodriguez; local democracy in Johannesburg, South Africa, by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou; the economy of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Zoë Marriage; 'primitive' accumulation in the Zimbabwe mineral industry by David Moore and Showers Mawowa; good governance in Tanzania by Hazel Gray and Mushtaq Khan; and management of the CFA franc in West Africa by Kako Nubukpo. The final part is New Directions and has essays about the urban revolution and the informal economy by Keith Hart; relations between China and Sub-Saharan Africa by Raphael Kaplinsky, Dorothy McCormick and Mike Morris; and South Africa and its regional integration by Keith Hart and Vishnu Padayachee. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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