. In The Wealth and Poverty of African States, Morten Jerven shows how these findings transform our understanding of … late 1990s. The result is a new framework for understanding the causes of poverty and wealth and the trajectories of … economic growth and state development in Africa across the twentieth century. …

pursuit of happiness - and assesses the extent of its realization in Africa. The paper assumes the normativity of socio … states and the global community to do more to realize the right to an adequate standard of living, given the massive poverty …, unemployment, crime, homelessness and other pathologies that plague Africa and show no signs of abating. The Author concludes …