Economic Policy in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Harvard HKS

The goal of this semester-long course is to understand the economic development trajectory of African countries by examining their challenges and opportunities. The course aims to disentangle the factors driving — or impeding — structural transformation, and to assess what, if anything, is distinctive about the African experience. Drawing on successive waves of development economics and a broad base of empirical evidence, it evaluates the major narratives that have shaped interpretations of…