Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries are Leading the Way

Public Lecture by
Dr. Steven Radelet, Senior Economist, USAID

Monday, May 7 2012
5:30 – 7PM
Haldeman 041

(Dinner catered by Tastes of Africa starting at 5:15PM)

** This event is part Dartmouth Africa Week 2012. For more information, go to: https://www.facebook.com/DartmouthAfricaWeek2012 **

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There’s good news out of Africa. Seventeen emerging countries are putting behind them the conflict, stagnation, and dictatorships of the past. Since the mid-1990s, these countries have defied the old negative stereotypes of poverty and failure by achieving steady economic growth, deepening democracy, improving governance, and decreasing poverty.

Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way unearths the deep political and economic changes underway in these countries. It takes a fresh approach by not treating sub-Saharan Africa as a monolithic entity and recognizes instead the different dynamics in countries across the region. It examines three groups of countries: the emerging countries, oil exporters (where progress has been uneven and volatile), and others (where there has been little progress).