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Abstract
This compendium of entries on the economics of Africa provides thematic and
country perspectives by more than 100 leading economic analysts of Africa. The
contributors include: the best of young African researchers based in Africa; renowned
academics from the top universities in Africa, Europe and North America; present and past
Chief Economists of the African Development Bank; present and past Chief Economists
for Africa of the World Bank; present and past Chief Economists of the World Bank;
African Central Bank Governors and Finance Ministers; and four recipients of the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economics. Other than the requirement that the entry be analytical and
not polemical, the contributors were given freedom to put forward their particular
perspective on a topic. The entries are not therefore surveys of the literature. Rather, they
constitute a picture of the concerns of modern economics as it is applied to African
problems, as seen by the leading economists working on Africa.