Africa's Turn?

by Edward Miguel

Book Overview

Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.

By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While "economic miracles" in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass destitution, and ranked lowest in the world in just...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262012898
• ISBN13: 9780262012898
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.4" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher