Michael Kevane : Burkina Faso Expats in East Bay : Oakland North
Michael Kevane, associate professor of economics, was quoted in an Oakland North article about Burkina Faso expats in the East Bay.
An excerpt from the article:
Reporting a GDP of $12.54 billion in 2014, Burkina Faso ranks among the 20 poorest countries in the world, according to a report by Global Finance, a financial magazine based in New York City. The country’s Finance Minister Jean Gustave Sanon told Reuters that the coup cost Burkina Faso more than $50 million in lost revenue. But Michael Kevane, an associate professor of African development economics at Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business in California, said the coup “will not have long-lasting effects on the economy, because Burkina Faso is still largely an agrarian country and the coup was concentrated in Ouagadougou.”
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