Discover African Studies at Georgetown: Focus on Economics and Development
The issues of economics, finance, markets and development have become increasingly essential to understanding contemporary Africa. Therefore, the key challenge that many African countries have faced since independence has been the need to maintain and accelerate economic growth in order to lift their people out of poverty and to improve their well being. Until recently, the story has been a sad one: stagnated economic growth and skyrocketing poverty numbers. Clearly, things have to change.
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From the Director...
Welcome to African Studies at Georgetown. Our program offers a unique window into a vital, dynamic, but frequently misunderstood, region of the world: sub-Saharan Africa. Africa is a place of incredible contradictions: it is on the margins of world trade and investment, yet throughout modern history, Africa’s people and resources have been essential to development elsewhere; Africa is incredibly rich in resources, but it is plagued with some of the world’s most entrenched poverty ...
