Economic Development - Interesting Items

Transition Economies – Thirty Years After the Collapse of the Berlin Wall

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/most-postcommunist-citizens-worse-off-by-kristen-r-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2019-11

Africa’s Demographic Transition – Challenges Ahead

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/africa-youth-low-political-socioeconomic-engagement-by-george-lwanda-2019-11 

Ethiopia’s Economy Is Booming, but at What Cost?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/ethiopia-china-economy/594799/

Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling the Soil Once Meant Shame

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/africa/farming-millennials.html

Africa needs a green revolution

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/11/03/africa-needs-a-green-revolution

Africa is attracting ever more interest from powers elsewhere

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/03/07/africa-is-attracting-ever-more-interest-from-powers-elsewhere

Shayera Dark notes:

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/overcoming-western-media-stereotypes-of-africa-by-shayera-dark-2019-01

“This penchant to accentuate the negative does more than reduce Africa to stereotypes; it also feeds the one-dimensional narrative of Africa as a war-torn, disease-ridden, poverty-stricken hellscape where all hope dies. This inclination to fit people and events into simple plot lines leads to what Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls the “danger of a single story.” A limited viewpoint, repeatedly promulgated, comes to frame all coverage and emerges as the only truth.”

Related:

Hiding the Real Africa

https://archives.cjr.org/reports/hiding_the_real_africa.php