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Africa's Turn?

Africa's Turn?

by Edward Miguel (Editor)

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 144 PAGES

Refreshingly optimistic, Berkeley economist Edward Miguel brings together nine experts on Africa and international development to respond to his observation that African nations are making modest but genuine recent gains in the standard of living and better government. One in a series of excellent short books by Boston Review Books on important subjects of the day that also includes What We KnowAbout Climate Change (GEO46, $14.95).  (AFR240, $14.95)

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