| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures ; Series 32 |
| Contents |
Lecture 1 -- from recovery to development; introduction; policy makers' claims; factors behind the recovery; mea culpa and the consequences; new challenges and opportunities; conclusion; Lecture 2 -- social equality and development; introduction; the adjustment years: socially blind macroeconomics; post-washington consensus; Lecture 3 -- bringing the universities back in; some consequences of maladjustment; what is to be done? |
| Summary |
Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectureseries at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africa's attempts at growth and development since the independence era, her attempts at recovery from a string of serious socio-political set-backs, and advocates for the role of universities as essential agents in the drive to sustained development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Investment & securities.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
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Africa -- Economic policy -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9988860250 |
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9789988860257 |
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