Historical patterns of economic growth in Africa: a review

Arbeitspapier

The study of long term growth in Africa has recently been invigorated by the work of economists. To date, this literature has been motivated by explaining a divergence of income and has focussed on finding persistent factors that can explain a chronic failure of growth in Africa. This chapter reviews some periods of economic growth in the past two centuries, and suggest that there must be more to learn from studying these periods of economic change and accumulation, particularly because they were accompanied by significant changes in institutions, or how the economy and the society was organized. The African economic history literature does emphasise dynamism - as opposed to persistence, and diversity in outcomes across time and space - in contrast to the average stagnation that has prompted the economic literature. In sum, there is more to learn from studying the history of economic growth in the African past, than what can be gauged from a search for a root cause of African economic underdevelopment.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: African Economic History Working Paper Series ; No. 28/2016

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts ; Economic History: General ; Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Africa; Oceania ; Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: Africa; Oceania ; Economic History: Manufacturing and Construction: Africa; Oceania
• Thema: Economic History ; Economic Development ; Economic Growth ; Development Economics ; External Trade

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Jerven, Morten
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): African Economic History Network (AEHN)
• (wo): s.l.
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242657
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ