Book Review: How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier by Joe Studwell

The book was supported by Omidyar Network and Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.

It breaks into 3 parts:

1. The Context
2. Early Movers
3. The Challenge for the Rest

Out of door the author lists 3 historical factors that drove the relative poverty of the African continent

• Chronical low population density
• Legacy of low budget colonialism, characterized by isolated enclaves of mineral and agricultural commodity exploitation
• Limiting set of initial developmental conditions born of the first two