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Africa and Economics. What’s the problem?

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Sensitivity to local conditions? Check. World Bank Kenya got it covered.

Right on cue, doctor the World Bank makes a contribution to the debate on whether Economics has an Africa problem (here and here).

(HT: @g33kmate)

It might be that Africa has an economics problem. That is the subject of my next book: Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong.

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