Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102991 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/101
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies - a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state - as key explanations of the troubled political and economic trajectories of many African societies. This paper considers the nature and implications of recent momentous changes for Africa's political economies. It asks if there is such a thing as a homogenous and universal middle class, what its attributes and role are, and how these connect to the trajectory of the broader political economy.
Subjects: 
Africa
middle class
private sector
JEL: 
P16
P50
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-822-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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