TY  - BOOK
AU  - edited by Célestin Monga
TI  - The Oxford handbook of Africa and economics
SN  - 9780199687114
U1  - 330.96OXF 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Economics--Africa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of Africa-centered economic research was not enhanced by the well-known limitations of economic data across the continent. Moreover, development economics itself was not always fashionable, and the broader discipline of economics has had its ups and downs, and has been undergoing a major identity crisis because it failed to predict the Great Recession
ER  -