Benno J. Ndulu works in the Africa region of the World Bank where he serves as Advisor to the Vice-President. Stephen A. O'Connell is Eugene M. Lang Research Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College. Jean-Paul Azam is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse and at the Institut Universitaire de France. Robert H. Bates is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. Augustin Fosu is Deputy Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the United Nations University. Jan Willem Gunning is Professor of Development Economics at the Free University, Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam Institute for International Development.
'This book is chock-full of fascinating data, interesting hypotheses, and country details; it is a rich review of Africa's troubled postcolonial economic history that will be a reference and an inspiration for political economists for years to come.' Foreign Affairs