African economic development: evidence, theory, policy

Part I. Context. Introduction : a fresh outlook on evidence, analysis, and policy for economic development in Africa

Uneven, contradictory, and brutal economic development in Africa

Varieties of common sense

Part II. Strategies of economic development in Africa. Investment, wage goods, and industrial policy

The trade imperative

Unbalanced development

Part III. Labour, poverty, and agricultural productivity. Wage employment in Africa

Working out the solution to rural poverty

Technical change and agricultural productivity

Part IV. Towards possibilism in policy making. High-yielding variety policies in Africa.