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Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong, by Morten Jerven

London, Zed Books Ltd., 2015, 175 pp., $21.95 (paperback), ISBN: 10-1783601329

George R. G. ClarkeTexas A&M International University, Laredo, TX, [email protected]
Pages 483-485 | Published online: 28 Jul 2016

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