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1 THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF AFRICA AND ECONOMICS VOLUME 1 CONTEXT AND CONCEPTS Edited by and JUSTIN YIFU LIN OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

2 CONTENTS ListofFigures ListofTables ListofContributors xiii xvii xix Introduction: Africa, the Next Intellectual Frontier 1 AND JUSTIN YIFU LIN PART I CONCEPTS 1. Prolegomena to Economics as an African Science: A Philosophical Meditation 29 FABIEN EBOUSSI BOULAGA 2. Households and Income in Africa 46 KATHLEEN BEEGLE, CALOGERO CARLETTO, BENJAMIN DAVIS, AND ALBERTO ZEZZA 3. Transformation of African Farm-cum-Family Structures 59 CATHERINE GUIRKINGER AND JEAN-PHILIPPE PLATTEAU 4. The Economics of Marriage in North Africa: A Unifying Theoretical Framework 72 RAGUI ASSAAD AND CAROLINE KRAFFT 5. The Theory of the Firm in the African Context 86 CHRISTOPHER MALIKANE 6. Markets and Urban Provisioning 104 JANE I. GUYER 7. Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Africa's Missing Middle ALAN GELB, CHRISTIAN J. MEYER, AND VIJAYA RAMACHANDRAN 1x5 8. Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment in Africa 136 STEPHEN GOLUB AND FARAZ HAYAT

3 CONTENTS 9. Inclusive Growth in Africa MTHULI NCUBE 10. Poverty:ShiftingFortunes and New Perspectives m ABEBE SHIMELES 11. Dimensions of African Inequality 197 ARNE BIGSTEN 12. Inclusive Growth and Developmental Governance: The Next African Frontiers 21 3 RICHARD JOSEPH 13. Economics and the Study ofcorruption in Africa 233 M. A. THOMAS 14. Thoughts on Development: The African Experience 247 FRAN^OIS BOURGUIGNON 15. The Ideaof Economic Development: Views from Africa 271 HIPPOLYTE FOFACK PART II METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 16. Principles of Economics: African Counter-Narratives Economics and Culture in Africa 334 FELWINE SARR 18. The Economics of Non-Cognitive Skills 351 LAURA C AMFIELD 19. Modeling African Economies: A DSGE Approach 370 ANDREW BERG, SHU-CHUN S. YANG, AND LUIS-FELIPE ZANNA 20. Measuring Economic Progress in the African Context 393 MORTEN JERVEN 21. Measuring Structural Economic Vulnerability in Africa 407 PATRICK GUILLAUMONT 22. Measuring Democracy: An Economic Approach 427

4 23. Measurement and Analysis of Competitiveness OLUMIDE TAIWO AND JULIUS A. AGBOR PART III HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES AND ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE 24. Africas New Economic Opportunities PAUL COLLIER 25. Tigers or Tiger Prawns? The African Growth "Tragedy" and "Renaissance" in Perspective CHRISTOPHER CRAMER AND HA-JOON CHANG 26. The Economic Legacies of the African Slave Trades WARREN C. WHATLEY 27. The Economics of Colonialism in Africa GARETH AUSTIN 28. Public-Private Interface for Inclusive Development in Africa OLU AJAKAIYE AND AFEIKHENA JEROME 29. Natural Resources in Africa: Precious Boon or Precious Bane? IBRAHIM AHMED ELBADAWI AND NADIR ABDELLATIF MOHAMMED 30. Volatility and Vulnerability XUBEI LUO 31. Africa's Urbanization: Challenges and Opportunities MARIA E. (MILA) FREIRE, SOMIK LALL, AND DANNY LEIPZIGER 32. Environmental and Climate Change Issues in Africa TOMONORI SUDO 33. Informality, Growth, and Development in Africa AHMADOU ALY MBAYE AND NANCY BENJAMIN 34. Capitalism and African Business Cultures SCOTT D. TAYLOR

5 XÜ CONTENTS PART IV THE ECONOMICS OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION 35. The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, TAKAAKI MASAKI AND NICOLAS VAN DE WALLE 36. The Economics of Authoritarianism in North Africa 675 RAJ M. Dss Ai, ANDERS OLOFSGÄRD, AND TARIK M. YOUSEF 37. The Potential Economic Dividends of North African Revolutions 689 MUSTAPHA KAMEL NABLI AND HAKIM BEN HAMMOUDA 38. The Economics of Violent Conflict and War in Africa 705 ANKE HOEFFLER 39. The Ganses and Consequences of Terrorism in Africa 724 JULIET ELU AND GREGORY PRICE 40. The Political Economy of the New Arab Awakening 739 MUSTAPHA KAMEL NABLI AND HAKIM BEN HAMMOUDA 41. Democratic Decentralization and Economic Development 756 ROGER B. MYERSON 42. The Economics of Happiness and Anger in North Africa 770 NADEREH CHAMLOU Name Index Subject Index

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