Economics

From politics to economics, science and engineering, this book raises the bar on the debate about the place of Africa in the world. Africa Rise Up! interrogates the historical and contemporary forces, agency, and factors that combine to affect the location of the continent in the global order.

In preparation for its 2019-2022 Country Partnership Framework with South Africa, the World Bank Group has drafted a Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD). Its aim is to strengthen understanding of the constraints in achieving two goals in South Africa: to eliminate poverty by 2030, and to boost shared prosperity.

This bestselling and authoritative dictionary covers all aspects of economics including theory, policy, and applied micro and macroeconomics on a global scale. An essential book for professional economists as well as for students and teachers of economics, business, and finance.

Dramatically escalating prices of raw materials, driven by rapid industrialisation in China and other countries of the global South as well as by looming world shortages, had for the few years preceding the financial meltdown and global recession of 2009 promoted a new scramble for Africa's natural resources.

The first economic history of South Africa in over sixty years. It examines five hundred years of South African economic history from the years preceding European settlements through to the post-Apartheid era. This book will be essential reading for students in economics, African history, imperial history and politics.

The first economic history of South Africa in over sixty years. It examines five hundred years of South African economic history from the years preceding European settlements through to the post-Apartheid era. This book will be essential reading for students in economics, African history, imperial history and politics.