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The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa

Author : Haroon Bhorat,Alan Hirsch,S. M. Ravi Kanbur,Mthuli Ncube
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199689248

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The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa by Haroon Bhorat,Alan Hirsch,S. M. Ravi Kanbur,Mthuli Ncube Pdf

In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid. The new era of political freedom was seen as the foundation for economic prosperity and inclusion. The last two decades have seen mixed results. Economic growth has been volatile. While inequalities in public services have been reduced, income inequality has increased, and poverty has remained stagnant. As the twentieth anniversary of the transition to democracy approaches in 2014, the economic policy debates in South Africa are in full flow. They combine a stocktake of the various programs of the last two decades with a forward looking discussion of strategy in the face of an ever open but volatile global economy. Underlying the discourse are basic and often unresolved differences on an appropriate strategy for an economy like South Africa, with a strong natural resource base but with deeply entrenched inherited inequalities, especially across race. This volume contributes to the policy and analytical debate by pulling together perspectives on a range of issues: micro, macro, sectoral, country wide and global, from leading economists working on South Africa. Other than the requirement that it be analytical and not polemical, the contributors were given freedom to put forward their particular perspective on their topic. The economists invited are from within South Africa and from outside; from academia and the policy world; from international and national level economic policy agencies. The contributors include recognized world leaders in South African economic analysis, as well as the very best of the younger crop of economists who are working on the study of South Africa, the next generation of leaders in thought and policy.

The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy

Author : Arkebe Oqubay,Fiona Tregenna,Imraan Valodia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1153 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192894199

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The Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy by Arkebe Oqubay,Fiona Tregenna,Imraan Valodia Pdf

While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features. It is a regional economic powerhouse that plays a significant role, not only in southern Africa and in the continent, but also as a member of BRICS. However, there has been a lack of structural transformation and weak economic growth, and South Africa faces the profound triple challenges of poverty, inequality, and unemployment. Any meaningful debate about economic policies to address these challenges needs to be informed by a deep understanding of historical developments, robust empirical evidence, and rigorous analysis of South Africa's complex economic landscape. This volume seeks to provide a wide-ranging set of original, detailed, and state-of-the-art analytical perspectives that contribute to scientific knowledge as well as to well-informed and productive discourse on the South African economy. While concentrating on the more recent economic issues facing South Africa, the handbook also provides historical and political context. It offers an in-depth examination of strategic issues in the country's key economic sectors, and brings together diverse analytical perspectives.

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa

Author : Ernest Aryeetey,Shantayanan Devarajan,Ravi Kanbur,Louis Kasekende
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191640483

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The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa by Ernest Aryeetey,Shantayanan Devarajan,Ravi Kanbur,Louis Kasekende Pdf

Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us about the diversity and the commonalities? The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa is a definitive and comprehensive account of the key issues and topics affecting Africa's ability to grow and develop. It includes 53 thematic and 48 country perspectives by a veritable who's who of more than 100 leading economic analysts of Africa. The contributors include: bright new African researchers based in Africa; renowned academics from the top Universities in Africa, Europe and North America; present and past Chief Economists of the African Development Bank; present and past Chief Economists for Africa of the World Bank; present and past Chief Economists of the World Bank; African Central Bank governors and finance ministers; and four Nobel Laureates in Economics.

The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Context and concepts

Author : Célestin Monga,Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199687114

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The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Context and concepts by Célestin Monga,Justin Yifu Lin Pdf

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 handbook (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. The set of analyses and reflections presented here try to endow each subject with depth and discovery.

The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

Author : Célestin Monga,Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199687107

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The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics by Célestin Monga,Justin Yifu Lin Pdf

A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved. These conditions are said to vary from the necessary quantity and quality of physical and human capital to the appropriate institutions and business environments. While intellectually charming and often elegantly formulated, that conventional wisdom is actually contradicted by historical evidence and common sense. It also suggests a form of intellectual mimicry that posits a unique path to prosperity for all countries regardless of their level of development and economic structure. In fact, the argument underlining that reasoning is tautological, and the policy prescriptions derived from it are fatally teleological: low-income countries are by definition those where such ingredients are missing. None of today's high-income countries started its growth process with the "required" and complete list of growth ingredients. Unless one truly believes that the continent of Africa-and most developing countries-are ruled predominantly if not exclusively by plutocrats with a high propensity for sadomasochism, the conventional view must be re-examined, debated, and questioned. This volume-the second of the Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics-aims at reassessing the economic policies and practices observed across the continent since independence. It offers a collection of analyses by some of the leading economists and development thinkers of our time, and reflects a wide range of perspectives and viewpoints-even on the same topic. Africa's emergence as a potential economic powerhouse in the years and decades ahead amply justifies the scope and ambition of the book.

The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

Author : Célestin Monga,Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191510731

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The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics by Célestin Monga,Justin Yifu Lin Pdf

A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved. These conditions are said to vary from the necessary quantity and quality of physical and human capital to the appropriate institutions and business environments. While intellectually charming and often elegantly formulated, that conventional wisdom is actually contradicted by historical evidence and common sense. It also suggests a form of intellectual mimicry that posits a unique path to prosperity for all countries regardless of their level of development and economic structure. In fact, the argument underlining that reasoning is tautological, and the policy prescriptions derived from it are fatally teleological: low-income countries are by definition those where such ingredients are missing. None of today's high-income countries started its growth process with the "required" and complete list of growth ingredients. Unless one truly believes that the continent of Africa-and most developing countries-are ruled predominantly if not exclusively by plutocrats with a high propensity for sadomasochism, the conventional view must be re-examined, debated, and questioned. This volume-the second of the lOxford Handbook of Africa and Economics-reassesses the economic policies and practices observed across the continent since independence. It offers a collection of analyses by some of the leading economists and development thinkers of our time, and reflects a wide range of perspectives and viewpoints. Africa's emergence as a potential economic powerhouse in the years and decades ahead amply justifies the scope and ambition of the book.

The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

Author : Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198819706

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The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics by Justin Yifu Lin Pdf

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

Author : Célestin Monga,Yifu Justin Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:960046210

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The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics by Célestin Monga,Yifu Justin Lin Pdf

Présentation de l'éditeur : "A popular myth about the travails of Africa holds that the continent's long history of poor economic performance reflects the inability of its leaders and policymakers to fulfill the long list of preconditions to be met before sustained growth can be achieved. These conditions are said to vary from the necessary quantity and quality of physical and human capital to the appropriate institutions and business environments. While intellectually charming and often elegantly formulated, that conventional wisdom is actually contradicted by historical evidence and common sense. It also suggests a form of intellectual mimicry that posits a unique path to prosperity for all countries regardless of their level of development and economic structure. In fact, the argument underlining that reasoning is tautological, and the policy prescriptions derived from it are fatally teleological: low-income countries are by definition those where such ingredients are missing. None of today's high-income countries started its growth process with the "required" and complete list of growth ingredients. Unless one truly believes that the continent of Africa-and most developing countries-are ruled predominantly if not exclusively by plutocrats with a high propensity for sadomasochism, the conventional view must be re-examined, debated, and questioned. This volume-the second of the Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics-aims at reassessing the economic policies and practices observed across the continent since independence. It offers a collection of analyses by some of the leading economists and development thinkers of our time, and reflects a wide range of perspectives and viewpoints-even on the same topic. Africa's emergence as a potential economic powerhouse in the years and decades ahead amply justifies the scope and ambition of the book."

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa

Author : Haroon Bhorat,Alan Hirsch,Ravi Kanbur,Mthuli Ncube
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191003424

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The Oxford Companion to the Economics of South Africa by Haroon Bhorat,Alan Hirsch,Ravi Kanbur,Mthuli Ncube Pdf

In 1994 South Africa saw the end of apartheid. The new era of political freedom was seen as the foundation for economic prosperity and inclusion. The last two decades have seen mixed results. Economic growth has been volatile. While inequalities in public services have been reduced, income inequality has increased, and poverty has remained stagnant. As the twentieth anniversary of the transition to democracy approaches in 2014, the economic policy debates in South Africa are in full flow. They combine a stocktake of the various programs of the last two decades with a forward looking discussion of strategy in the face of an ever open but volatile global economy. Underlying the discourse are basic and often unresolved differences on an appropriate strategy for an economy like South Africa, with a strong natural resource base but with deeply entrenched inherited inequalities, especially across race. This volume contributes to the policy and analytical debate by pulling together perspectives on a range of issues: micro, macro, sectoral, country wide and global, from leading economists working on South Africa. Other than the requirement that it be analytical and not polemical, the contributors were given freedom to put forward their particular perspective on their topic. The economists invited are from within South Africa and from outside; from academia and the policy world; from international and national level economic policy agencies. The contributors include recognized world leaders in South African economic analysis, as well as the very best of the younger crop of economists who are working on the study of South Africa, the next generation of leaders in thought and policy.

Research Handbook on Democracy and Development

Author : Gordon Crawford,Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788112659

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Research Handbook on Democracy and Development by Gordon Crawford,Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai Pdf

Exploring and updating the controversial debates about the relationship between democracy and development, this Research Handbook provides clarification on the complex and nuanced interlinkages between political regime type and socio-economic development. Distinguished scholars examine a broad range of issues from multidisciplinary perspectives across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics

Author : Harold Kincaid,Don Ross
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195189254

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics by Harold Kincaid,Don Ross Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive, cohesive, and accessible reference source to the philosophy of economics, presenting important new scholarship by top scholars.

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa

Author : Ernest Aryeetey,Shantayanan Devarajan,Ravi Kanbur,Louis Kasekende
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199575978

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The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa by Ernest Aryeetey,Shantayanan Devarajan,Ravi Kanbur,Louis Kasekende Pdf

This compendium of entries provides thematic and country perspectives to create a picture of the concerns of modern economics in Africa, with contributions from more than 100 leading economic analysts of Africa.

The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

Author : Célestin Monga,Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191510755

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The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics by Célestin Monga,Justin Yifu Lin Pdf

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.

Red Road to Freedom

Author : Tom Lodge
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847013217

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Red Road to Freedom by Tom Lodge Pdf

Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action

Author : Ashwini Deshpande
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811941665

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Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action by Ashwini Deshpande Pdf

This Handbook deals with theoretical and empirical evidence on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action across the world, assessed over a variety of social identities, such as caste, race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, tribal status. It also outlines methodological advances in this area, with plenty of additional references for the interested reader. It combines theoretical frameworks developed in the West with historical writings about discrimination and social justice from primarily Indian philosophers, aspects which are typically not found under one roof. It offers the reader a combination of insights into theories across a range of disciplines, as well as evidence, data –both quantitative and qualitative, in addition to the latest methodological advances in the estimation of discrimination – econometric, experimental, mixed-methods.