Economic Underdevelopment in Africa: Richard Swedberg

The Economic Performance of Civilizations: Roles of Culture, Religion, and the Law
The purpose of this conference is to make progress toward identifying and isolating the effects of religion, cultures and legal systems on the economic trajectories of civilizations. The participants belong to several disciplines and they vary greatly in geographic emphasis. The civilizations to be studied comparatively include those of East Asia, the Middle East, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. Contexts to be emphasized include commercial organizations, public finance, state formation, property rights and industrial organizations. The conference is co-sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

Session IV: The Puzzle of Economic Underdevelopment in Africa

Chair:
Robert Woodberry

Discussants:

Richard Roberts
Richard Swedberg

Presenters:
Jean-Philippe Platteau, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on the Economics of Development, University of Namur (Belgium) Is Culture an Obstacle to African Economic Development?

Ghislaine Lydon, University California at Los Angeles A Paper Economy of Faith without Faith in Paper: A Contribution to Understanding the Roots of Islamic Institutional Stagnation

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[53Africa]

My advice to receive more information data in Africa, Scholars should look and read our Newspapers. Black Investment Group to Build 500 Homes & School In Ghana & Nigeria build ECOWAS Highway. Namibia build more than 3 thousands Schools since independence, Angola is doing great so where did u get your information from.

[JimWAllan]

What I don't understand about the concept of global economic growth is, what is the long-term vision? Is the whole world destined to become a sprawling metropolis, with all animals restricted to parks and zoos? Does EVERYWHERE need to sustain humans, grow crops, with electricity and plumbing, etc? Why do people assume this is how it SHOULD be? Tribes thrived without the need for all these modern trappings, so why is western culture & technology now a model to be demanded everywhere?