Ryan C Briggs

—UPDATE: Sep 8, 2009 —

I won’t be updating this list for at least the next few months, but Aleksandra Gadzala found my list and made some useful additions. Her list can be found here.

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I need to read (a lot) more on Africa and development. This is the list that I have compiled over the last few days. It is broken down into journal articles, academic books and fiction. My goal with the reading list is to create a solid base that I can then specialize on top of. Journal titles are missing, but there should be enough information on each item to track it down on google scholar. A lot of this list was taken from sources in this book and various syllabi I grabbed off the internet.

I know this list makes for a long post, but I imagine someone else out there will find it useful some day. It leaves out what I have read in the past, but it is still pretty thorough. It is biased towards political economy and governance.

Articles:

• Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, & James Robinson (2005) “Institutions as the fundamental cause of long-run growth”
• Alesina, Alberto & Beatrice Weder (2002), “Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?” American Economic Review, 92(4), 1126-37.
• Alesina, Alberto & David Dollar (2000), “Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?” Journal of Economic Growth, 5(1), 33-64.
• Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo (2006). “The Economic Lives of the Poor,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(1), 141-167.
• Barkan, Joel & David Gordon (1998) “Democracy in Africa”
• Birdsall, Nancy (?) “Seven deadly sins of donor agencies…” (or something like that, it is on the CGD website)
• Bloom, David & Jeff Sachs (1998) “Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa”
• Boyce, James & Léonce Ndikumana (2001) “Is Africa a net creditor? New Estimates of Capital Flight from Severely Indebted Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1970-96”
• Brautigam & Knack (2004) “Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Sharan Africa”
• Chauvin, Nicolas & Aart Kraay (2005) “What has 100 billion dollars worth of debt relief done for low-income countries?”
• Clark, Anne Marie (1995) “Non-governmental organizations and their influence on international society”
• Collier, Paul & Jan Willem Gunning (1999) “What has Africa grown slowly?”
• de Long, Bradford & Barry Eichengreen (1991) “The Marshall Plan: History’s Most Successful Structural Adjustment Program”
• de Waal, Alex (2003) “How will HIV/AIDS transform African governance?”
• Easterly, William & Ross Levine (1997) “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions”
• Easterly, William (2001) “Think Again: Debt Relief”
• Easterly, William (2002) “How did heavily indebted poor countries become heavily indebted? Reviewing two decades of debt relief”
• Easterly, William & Tobias Pfutze, Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 22, No.2, Spring 2008 
• Ekeh, Peter (1975). “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 17(1): 91‐112.
• Emery, James (2003) “Governance and Private Investment in Africa”
• Englebert, Pierre (2000) “Solving the mystery of the AFRICA dummy”
• Englebert, Pierre (1997) “The Contemporary African State: Neither African nor State”
• Finan, Frederico and Claudio Ferraz (2007). “Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil’s Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes,” IZA Discussion Paper No. 2836 
• Freeman, Richard & David Lindauer (1999) “Why Not Africa?”
• Glaeser, Edward et al. (2004) “Do Institutions Cause Growth?”
• Gordon, David (1992) “Conditionality in Policy-Based Lending in Africa: USAID Experience”
• Herbst, Jeffery (1990) “The Structural Adjustment of Politics in Africa”
• Kanbur, Ravi (2000) “Aid, Conditionality, and Debt in Africa”
• Kaufman, Daniel & Aart Kraay (2002) “Growth without Governance”
• Kenny, Charles & David Williamson (2001) “What do we know about economic growth? Or, why don’t we know very much?”
• Killick, Tony (2004) “Politics, Evidence, and the New Aid Agenda”
• Krasner, Steven (2004) “Sharing Sovereignty: New Institutions for Collapsed and Failing States”
• Kremer, Michael & Edward Miguel (2007) “Illusion of Sustainability” Quarterly Journal of Economics.  vol. 122, issue 3, pages 1007-1065 
• Lewis, Peter (1996) “Economic Reform and Political Transition in Africa: The Quest for a Politics of Development”
• Lindauer, David & Lant Printchett (2002) “What’s the Big Idea? The Third Generation of Policies for Economic Growth”
• Mallaby, Sebastian (2004) “NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor”
• Mistry, Percy (2000) “Africa’s record of regional co-operation and integration”
• Ndulu, Benno & Stephen O’Connell (1999) Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa”
• Ng, Francis & Alexander Yeats (1996) “Open Economies Work Better: did Africa’s protectionist policies cause its marginalization in world trade?”
• Pritchett, Lant & Lawrence Summers (1996) “Wealthier is Healthier”
• Rogerson, Andrew (2004) “The international aid system 2005-2010: Forces for and against change”
• Simmons, P.J. (1998) “Learning to live with NGOs”
• Shleifer, Andrei and Robert Vishny, (1993). “Corruption,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(3), 599-617.
• Subramanian, Arvind et al. (2000) “Trade and trade policies in eastern and southern Africa”
• Svensson, Jakob, 2005, “Eight Questions about Corruption,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 19:3, 19-42.
• Theobald, Robin (1982 ) “Patrimonialism”
• Van de Walle, Nicolas (2002) “Africa’s Range of Regimes” Journal of Democracy
• Schatzberg, Michael (1993) “Power, Legitimacy, and Democratisation in Africa”
• Weinstein, Jeremy (2005) “Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective”
• Journal of Democracy (1998) - Special Issue on Africa & Journal of Democracy (2001) - Special Issue on Francophone Africa

Books (Academic):

• Bates, Robert (1981) Markets and States in Tropical Africa
• Bates, Robert (2008). When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late‐Century Africa.
• Bauer, Gretchen & Hannah Britton (2006) Women in African Parliaments
• Boone, Catherine (2003) Political Topographies of the African State
• Bratton, Michael & Nicolas Van de Walle (1999) Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transition in Comparative Perspective
• Callaghy, Thomas and John Ravenhill (1993) Hemmed In: Responses to Africa’s Economic Decline
• Cumming, Gordon (2001) Aid to Africa: French and British Policies from the Cold War to the New Millennium
• de Soto, Hernando (1989) The Other Path
• de Soto, Hernando (2000) The Myster of Capital
• Dollar, David (1998) Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why
• Englebert (?) State Legitimacy and Development in Africa (there is an article on this also)
• Harford, Tim & Michael Klein (2005) The Market for Aid
• Herbst, Jeffrey (2000) States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
• Hyden, Goran (1983) No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective
• Jackson, Robert & Carl Rosenberb (1982) Personal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, Tyrant
• Jackson, Robert (1990) Quasi-States, Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Third World
• Joseph, Richard (2000) State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa
• Lancaster, Carol (2000) Transforming Foreign Aid: US Assistance in the 21st Century
• Landes, David (1998) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why some are rich and some are poor
• Leonard, David and Scott Strauss (2003) Africa’s Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures
• Mamdani, Mahmood (1996) Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
• North, Douglas (1990) Institutions, Institutional Change, and Performance
• Nugent, Paul (2004) The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective
• Perkins, Dwight, Steven Radalet & David Lindhauer (2006) Economics of Development
• Posner, Daniel (2005) Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
• Reader, John (1999) Africa: A Biography of the Continent
• Sen, Amartya (1999) Development as Freedom
• Tangri, Roger (2000) The Politics of Patronage in Africa: Parastatals, Privatization, and Private Enterprise in Africa
• White, Howard, Tony Killick & Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa (2001) African poverty at the Millennium: Causes, Complexities, and Challenges
• Young, Crawford (?) The African Colonial State in Historical Perspective

Books (Fiction):

• Achebe, Chinua (1958) Things Fall Apart
• Achebe, Chinua (1988) Antills of the Savannah
• Dangarembga, Tsitsi (1988) Nervous Conditions
• Fanon, Frantz (1963) The Wretched of the Earth
• Green, Graham (1948) The Heart of the Matter
• Holman, Michael (2005) Law and Order at Harrod’s
• Marechera, Dambudzo (1993) The House of Hunger
• Naipal, V.S. (1979) A Bend in the River
• Rush, Norman (1991) Mating