Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781108709996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 380 str.

Franklin (University of Helsinki) Obeng-Odoom

Opis

Explores and challenges existing conventions of inequality in Africa while offering new insights to explain persistent poverty across the continent.

Recenzje

'... Obeng-Odoom's latest book presents a fresh, comprehensive political economic framework for the general Global South, specifically Africa. It prioritizes Africans' authority in ongoing economic processes taking place on African soil.' Daphne Engel, SAGE Publications

Spis treści

Preface; Part I. The Problem: Introduction. The Global South in a 'compartmentalised world': 1. The foundations for a new beginning; Part II. Problematic Explanations and Solutions: 2. Property economics; 3. Land reform; 4. Human capital; 5. International trade; 6. Economic growth; Part III. Alternatives: 7. Socialism; 8. Africanisms; Concluding the groundwork for a new political economy of the Global South; Bibliography.