• Overview Map

• Copy of Current (Summer 2015) Syllabus

• Class Lectures Presentations

• Student Presentations

• Basic Economics Concepts for those without a background in economics

• Series of African Country Essays on Foreign Policy Web-site.

• Useful Links

• Why Military Officers Should Study Political Economy (NDU September 2014)

• Africa at Work: Job Creation and Inclusive Growth, McKinsey Global Institute, August 2012

• Africa Transformation Report, 2014, Africa Center for Economic Transformation

• Africa Competitiveness Report 2015, World Economic Forum/World Bank, 2015

• Foresight Africa: Top Priorities for the Continent in 2014, Brookings, January 2014

• Global Economic Prospects, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank, June 2015

• Regional Economic Outlook, Sub-Saharan Africa, International Monetary Fund, April 2015

• Millennium Development Goals 2014 Report, Economic Commission for Africa, 2014

• UN, Journal of African Transformation, 2015.

• World Economic Forum, Africa Competitiveness Report 2015.

• World Bank, Africa Pulse, April 2015 -- survery of current developments

• World Bank, Global Economic Prospects -- Africa, June 2015

Most Important Readings

• Sub-Saharan Africa: Sunny in the Cast Cloudy in the Center, Coface Risk Analysis, June 2015

• Amadou Sy, Is Africa at a Historical Crossroads to Convergence? Think Tank 20, October 2014

• IMF, The Quality of the Recent High Growth Episode in Sub-Saharan Africa, February 2013

• Economic Outlook 2015: Overview, African Development Bank, 2015

• CAR, The Importance of a Functioning Economy, Foreign Policy, July 2, 2015

Other Readings

• African Economic Structural Transformation: A Diagnostic Analysis, pp. 1-22, UN, Journal of African Transformation, 2015.

• Brookings, Foresight Africa: Top Priorities for the Continent in 2015, January 2015 -- contemporary essays

• Perry Munzwembiri, Top Risks for African Economies in 2015: Analysis, January 2, 2015 Eurasia Review

• Population Boom in Africa: A Dividend or a Liability, Rabobank, July 22, 2014 -- Africa section

• Dani Rodrik, An African Growth Miracle? National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2014

Most Important Readings

• S. Devarajan, Africa's Statistical tragedy, Review of Income and Wealth, October 2013

• IMF, Inclusive Growth, Institutions and the Underground Economy, February 2012

• Amadou Sy, "Are African Countries Rebasing GDP in 2014 Finding Evidence of Structural Transformation? Brookings, March 3, 2015

Other Readings

• Diane Coyle, Beyond GDP: What the measure of economic performance misses about economic performance, Foreign Affairs February 16, 2014

• The Economy Behind the Scenes (Nigeria), Ventures, March 9, 2015

• Central African Republic: Shadow Economy of Central African Armed Groups Exposed, AllAfrica, 2015

Data and Rankings/Indexes to look over

• African Economic Outlook: Statistics, African Development Bank

• Fragile State Index 2015, Foreign Policy June 2015

• Africa Prosperity Index 2015, Legatum Institute, 2015

• World Bank Governance Indicators, 2014

• UNDP, Human Development Report, 2014

• Heritage Foundation, Index of Economic Freedom, 2015

• World Economic Forum Competitiveness Index, 2014-15

• Milken Global Opportunity Index, 2013 (with video)

• EIU, Business Environment Rankings: Which Country is Best to Do Business In, 2014

• World Economic Forum Human Capital Report, 2013

• EIU Food Security Index, 2014

Historical Long-Run Models of Growth -- July 20

• B. Higgins, Chapter 3, The Classical Theory of Growth

• B. Higgins, Chapter 4, The Marxian Theory of Growth

• B. Higgins, Chapter 5, The Schumpeterian Theory of Economic Growth

• Mo Ibrahim, Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2015 -- African entrepreneurship

Theories of Development -- July 22

• B. Higgins, Chapter 14, Interaction of Modern and Traditional Sectors -- covers some of the material lin Nafziger

• B. Higgins, Chapter 15, Balanced/Unbalanced Growth -- covers some of the material in Nafziger

• Jeffrey Sachs, Stages of Economic Development, June 2004

• Michael Porter, Enhancing the Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity: The Current Competiveness Index

• Xavier Sala-I-Martin et al., The Global Competitiveness Index: Measuring the Productive Potential of Nations, World Economic Forum, 2007

• Oxford Analytica, International: Development Strategies Face Rethink, February 26, 2008

• E. Wayne Nafziger, Chapter 5, Theories of Economic Development -- Just sections starting with Rostow Theory of Growth and through Application of the Lewis Fei Ranis model to Japan and the Neoclassical Counter-revolution

• John Williamson, Keys to Success: The Beijing or Washington Consensus, Chapter 9, Handbook of Emerging Economies (Sakai)

• G. Roland, Ten Years After ... Transition and Economics, IMF Staff Papers 2001

Modern Long Run Models of Growth July 27, 29

• E. Wayne Nafziger, Chapter 5, Theories of Economic Development Just the sections: Neoclassical Growth Theory and New Endogenous Growth Theory

• Edmund Phelps, Tangible Investment as an Instrument of Growth(optional -- mathmatical) -- very good summary of the neo-classical model

• David Gold and Roy Ruffin, What Determines the Rate of Growth? (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Economic Review, 1993) -- best overview of the new theories, but a little mathmatical

• David Coates, "Why Growth Rates Differ," New Political Economy (March 1999)-- Good summary of the More important Growth Theories -- will summarize in class -- summary table on page 93 probably enough

• IMF, Anchoring Growth: the Importance of Productivity Enhancing Reforms in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

• Michael Spence, The Growth Report: Principal Findings and Recommendations, May 2008

• Brookings, How Finance Flows to Africa, May 2015

• Brookings, Private Capital Flows, Official Development Assistance, and Remittances to Africa: Who Gets What?

• EAG Seminar, Causes and Consequences of the Oil Price Drop, February 20, 2015

• Global Tensions and Economic Security, 2015 CCMR Executive Course in Decision Making, May 13, 2015
  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/business/international/chinas-global-ambitions-with-loans-and-strings-attached.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150724&nlid;=9781&tntemail0;=y

• S. Devarajan and W.Fengler, Africa's Economic Boom: Why the Pessimists and Optimists Are Both Right, Foreign Affairs April 3, 2013

• John Page, Three Myths About African Industry, Brookings 2014

• Sub-Saharan Africa Economy: Manufacturing an Economic Transition, EIU, August 27, 2014

• ADB, South Africa: Economic Outlook 2015

• South Africa Country Report, Rabobank, May 27, 2015

• Haroon Bhorat and Alan Hirsh, South Africa: Perspectives on Divergence and Convergence, Think tank 20, October 2014
  http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/africa-in-focus/posts/2015/01/29-inclusive-growth-south-africa-bhorat-oosthuizen
• Robert Looney, Where Apartheid Lives On, Foreign Policy July 11, 2013

• ADB, Mozambique: Economic Outlook 2015

• Robert Looney, Mozambique's Moment, Foreign Policy, September 18, 2014

• Mozambique Country Report, Rabobank, November 10, 2014

• The Case of Transformation in Mozambique, ISE Center 2012

• Anonio Cruz et al., Learning by Exporting: The Case of Mozambican Manufacturing

• ADB, Mauritius: Economic Outlook 2015

• Mauritius: From Mono-Crop Economy to Middle-Income Country, UNECA, Economic Report on Africa 2014

• A. Subraman, Mauritius: A Case Study, Finance and Development, December 2001

• Mauritius Country Report, Rabobank, September 10, 2014

• Jeff Frenkel, Mauritius the Little Country That Could, Foreign Policy 2012

• IMF, Mauritius: The Drivers of Growth -- Can the Past be Extended? July 2014

• ADB, Namibia: Economic Outlook 2015

• IMF, Namibia: Selected Issues: Policies that can Raise Potential Growth in Small Middle-Income Countries of SSA, January 2014

• Mohsin Khan, The Economic Consequences of the Arab Spring, Atlantic Council, February 2014

• Frasier Institute, Economic Freedom of the Arab World, 2014

• Robert Looney, The Political Economy of the Post-Arab Spring, Journal of South Asia and Middle East Studies, Spring 2015

• ADB, Algeria Economic Outlook 2015

• Algeria Africa Country Report, Rabobank, December 2, 2014

• Mohsin Khan, No Arab Spring for Algeria, Atlantic Council, May 2014

• ADB, Morocco: Economic Outlook 2015

• Morocco Country Report, Rabobank, July 1, 2014

• How Oman, Jordan and Morocco Survived the Arab Spring, The Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter 2014
  http://www.ebrd.com/news/2015/obstacles-to-business-in-middle-east-and-north-africa-instability-corruption-informal-sector.html

• ADB, Tunisia: Economic Outlook 2015
  http://ebrd-beeps.com/countries/tunisia/
• Tunisia Country Report, Rabobank, August 25, 2014

• Industrialization in Tunisia, Brookings, November 2014

• Antonio Nucifra, Cronyism, Corruption and the Arab Spring: The Case of Tunisia, Heritage, Index of Economic Freedom, 2014

• Robert Springborg, Egypt: The Challenge of Squaring the Energy-Environment-Growth Triangle, Forthcoming chapter in Robert Looney ed., Routledge Handbook of Transitions to Energy and Climate Security (London: Routledge 2016)

• Robert Springborg, Egypt's future: yet another Turkish model? International Spectator, 2014

• Robert Springborg, President Sisi's Delegative Authoritarianism

• ADB, Egypt: Economic Outlook 2015

• Egypt Country Report, Rabobank, November 11, 2014, 2014

• Hafez Ghanem, First Confront Discontent: Setting Priorities for Egypt's Economy, Milken Institute Review, First Quarter 2013

• Michele Dunne, Egypt's Economy: A Mixed Picture at Best, Carnegie, March 11, 2015
  http://ebrd-beeps.com/countries/egypt/

• Tim Kelsall, Authoritarianism, Democracy and Development, DLP, November 2014

• The Developmental State: What Options for Africa? UNECA, December 2012

• Laura Routley, Developmental States in Africa? Review of On-going Debates and Buzzwprds. Development Policy Review, 2014

• Brookings, Financing African Infrastructure, March 2015

• ADB, Ethiopia: Economic Outlook 2015

• Ethiopia Africa Country Report, Rabobank, June 16, 2014

• Industrialization in Ethiopia, Brookings, November 2014

• Robert Looney, The Ethiopian Economic Miracle, Foreign Policy, April 16, 2015

• Henry Verhoeven, Africa's Next Hegemon: Behind Ethiopia's Power Plays, Foreign Affaris, April 12, 2015

• Article on Economic Transformation in Ethiopia, Journal of African Development, 2012

• World Bank, Removing Constraints on Ethiopian Manufacturing, 2015

• ADB, Uganda: Economic Outlook 2015

• Industrialization in Uganda, Brookings, November 2014

• Robert Looney, In Uganda It's Bust Before the Boom, Foreign Policy, February 2, 2015

• Foresight Africa 2015: Growth and Inflation in Uganda, Brookings, 2015

• Youth Unemployment Challenge in Uganda and the Role of Employment Policies in Jobs Creation, Brookings, August 26, 2014
  http://www.international-alert.org/sites/default/files/Uganda_OilAndLivelihoods_EN_2013.pdf

• Industrialization in Kenya, Brookings, November 2014
  http://successfulsocieties.princeton.edu/sites/successfulsocieties/files/MG_Strategy_Kenya_Final.pdf ADB, Kenya: Economic Outlook 2015

• Kenya Country Report, Rabobank, September 10, 2013

• Boaz Munga, State of Youth Unemployment in Kenya, Brookings, August 21, 2014

• ADB, Rwanda: Economic Outlook 2015

• Rwanda Country Report, Rabobank, January 24, 2014

• Emergence of Africa and the Developmental state: A Case Study of Rwanda

• ADB, Tanzania: Economic Outlook 2015

• Industrialization in Tanzania, Brookings, November 2014

• China's Foreign Aid Reform: Implications for Africa, Brookings, July 2015

• Yun Sun, Inserting Africa into China's One Belt, One Road Strategy: A New Opportunity for Jobs and Infrastructure? Brookings, March 2, 2015

• China's Expanding African Relations: Implications for U.S. National Security, Rand, 2015, Chapter 2 and 3

• Chinese Engagement in Africa: Drivers, Reactions and Implications for U.S. Policy, Rand, 2014, Chapters 2 and 3

• World Bank, China in Africa, 2015

• How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World, July 2015

• The New Normal in China Africa, 2015

• ADB, Botswana Economic Outlook 2015

• Botswana Africa Country Report, Rabobank, August 21, 2014

• IMF/Botswana Consultation July 2014 -- Just through page 20.

• Chapter on Botswana: A Developmental State in Africa, 2010.

• ADB, Angola: Economic Outlook 2015

• Angola Country Report, Rabobank,August 13, 2014

• elisaabete Azevedo-Harman, Dwindling Assets: Oil, Inequlity and Angola's Emerging Fault Lines, World Politics Review April 23, 2015

• Jesse Salah Ovadia, Accumulation with or without dispossession? A ‘both/and’ approach to China in Africa with reference to Angola, Review of African Political Economy, 2013

• ADB, Zimbabwe: Economic Outlook 2015

• Marian tupy, The Breadbasket is Still a Basket Case, Foreign Policy July 25, 2013

• Zimbabwe's International Re-Engagement: The Long Haul to Recovery, Chatham House, April 2014

• ADB, Zambia: Economic Outlook 2015

• Zambia Country Report, Rabobank, November 11, 2014, 2014

• IMF Consultation with Zambia, June 16, 2015

• Political Economy Models of the Resource Curse: Implications for Policy and Research, African Development Bank, September 2009
  https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2015-06-16/plunder-africa

• ADB, Nigeria Economic Outlook 2015

• Nigeria Country Report, Rabobank, June 12, 2014

• Industrialization in Nigeria, Brookings, November 2014

• Robert Looney, The Boko Haram Economy, Foreign Policy, July 15, 2014

• Nigeria on the Edge of the Abyss, The Milken Institute Review, Spring Quarter 2015

• ADB, Ghana: Economic Outlook 2015

• Article on Economic Transformation in Ghana, Journal of African Development, 2012

• Ghana Country Report, Rabobank, July 1, 2014

• Industrialization in Ghana, Brookings, November 2014

• Can Ghana's Democracy Save it from the Oil Curse, Foreign Policy, May 1, 2014

• ADB, Gabon: Economic Outlook 2015

• Gabon: IMF Consultation February 2015

• IMF, Oil Price Collapse Vindicates Gabon’s Aim to Diversify, February 2015

• Industrialization in Senegal, Brookings, November 2014
  https://www.ipag.fr/wp-content/uploads/recherche/WP/IPAG_WP_2014_287.pdf
• ADB, Senegal: Economic Outlook 2015
  http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2014/car122414a.htm http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/car062415a.htm

• Fragile State Index 2015, Foreign Policy 2015

• Peace Through Prosperity:Integrating peacebuilding into economic development, International Alert, 2015

• Corridors of Militancy: The Sahel-Shara Border Regions, FRIDE, 2015

• CSIS, Rethinking Engagement in Fragile States, July 2015

• IMF, Building Resilence in Sub-Saharan Africa's Fragile States, 2015

• Brookings, Understanding the Ebola Outbreak, November 2014

• Brookings, State Building Approach to the Drug Trade Problem, July 2013

• Enhancing socio-Economic opportunities for ex-combatants in post-conflict environments

• ADB, DRC Economic Outlook 2015

• Rand, Overcoming Obstacles to Peace, 2013 -- Chapter on the DRC

• ADB, Chad Economic Outlook 2015

• ADB, Sierra Leone Economic Outlook 2015

• Rand, Overcoming Obstacles to Peace, 2013 -- Chapter on the Sierra Leone

• ADB, Congo Economic Outlook 2015

• ADB, South Sudan Economic Outlook 2015

• ADB, Liberia Economic Outlook 2015
  http://international-alert.org/sites/default/files/Liberia_SurvivingEbola_EN_2015.pdf