Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the book
should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing indicators for
total wealth in the countries covered by the case studies, which include
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa. These
case studies experiment with implementing the SEAA in sub-Saharan
nations known to suffer from the 'resource curse' their wealth in
resources and commodities has allowed inflows of liquidity, yet this
cash has not funded crucial developments in infrastructure or education.
What's more, resource-driven economies are highly vulnerable to
commodity price mutability. The new measures of wealth deployed here
offer more hope for the future in these countries than they themselves
would once have allowed for.