{"id":162,"date":"2004-12-05T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-05T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2013\/11\/05\/the-economy-of-africa\/"},"modified":"2017-12-01T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T13:46:00","slug":"the-economy-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/publications\/books\/the-economy-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economy of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/book-economy-africa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1076\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/book-economy-africa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/book-economy-africa.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/book-economy-africa-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Philippe HUGON, 2004, Pretoria, Protea Book House<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ISBN: 1-86919-027-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to write a book about African economies for two main reasons. Firstly, how does one explain the main issues when, even if one is limited to sub-Saharan Africa, the subcontinent is a territory of contrast? The second reason is more fundamental. One has to consider whether it is a matter of applying the instruments of economic analysis to the continent; or rather questioning economic categories based on African particularities.<\/p>\n<p>In this publication, the centrality of macroeconomics, albeit necessary for coherence sake, is set against a historic perspective (part one); macroeconomic analysis, allowing an understanding of the behaviour of agents, is linked to organisations and institutions in a socio-political context (part two); political economy debates take into account the multiplicity of current trends and challenges, allowing for the definition of several perspectives (part three).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Philippe Hugon<\/strong> is a professor of economics and director of CERED\/FORUM, University of Paris X &#8211; Nanterre<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippe HUGON, 2004, Pretoria, Protea Book House ISBN: 1-86919-027-0 &nbsp; It is difficult to write a book about African economies for two main reasons. Firstly, how does one explain the main issues when, even if one is limited to sub-Saharan Africa, the subcontinent is a territory of contrast? The second reason is more fundamental. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}