Economic Development in the Twenty-first Century Lessons for Africa Throughout History /

• Main Author: Ocran, Matthew Kofi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Africa-Economic conditions.; Economic history.; Development economics.; Economic policy.; Economic growth.; African Economics.; Economic History.; Development Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Economic Growth.

This book uses lessons from history to help African countries take charge of their own economic development agenda. History is an important part of Africa's economic development narrative, and Ocran investigates how the development outcomes between Africa and Western Europe became so divergent...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: General Background and Governing Issues
• Chapter 1: Why history is important in Africa's economic development narrative
• Chapter 2: Economic development: Facts, theories and evidence
• Chapter 3: Case studies of development approaches
• Part II: European Growth and Development that Shaped Africa
• Chapter 4: Medieval European economies
• Chapter 5: Mercantilism as a world economic order
• Part III: African Experience in the Long Run
• Chapter 6: Medieval African economies
• Chapter 7: Emaciation of African economies I: The Atlantic slave trade, 1451 - 1830
• Chapter 8: Emaciation of African economies II: Colonisation, 1885 - 1957
• Chapter 9: Post-independent African economies: 1960 - 2014
• Chapter 10: Lessons for economic development for Sub Saharan Africa.