The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class

"The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(1), pp. 110–111

Notes

1. The titles of two papers by Nancy Birdsall (2010, 2015) epitomize this view – “The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest” and “Does the Rise of the Middle Class Lock in Good Government in the Developing World?”

2. See, for example, Berry (2014).