Business, Politics, and the State in Africa: Challenging the Orthodoxies on Growth and Transformation by Kelsall, Doctor Tim

Business, Politics, and the State in Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780324210)

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Business, Politics, and the State in Africa: Challenging the Orthodoxies on Growth and Transformation by Kelsall, Doctor Tim

Business, Politics, and the State in Africa

$32.95
Business, Politics, and the State in Africa: Challenging the Orthodoxies on Growth and Transformation by Kelsall, Doctor Tim

Business, Politics, and the State in Africa

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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In recent years Africa appears to have turned a corner economically. It is posting increased growth rates and is no longer the world's slowest growing region. Commentators are beginning to ask whether emerging from Africa is a new generation of 'lion' economies to challenge the East Asian 'tigers'? This book goes behind the headlines to examine the conditions necessary not just for growth in Africa but for a wider business and economic transformation. Contrary to neoliberal economics, it argues that governments can play an important role in this through selective interventions to correct market failures, and, controversially, that neo-patrimonial governance need not be an obstacle to improved business and economic conditions.

Drawing on a variety of timely case studies - including Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Ghana - this provocative book provides a radical new theory of the political and institutional conditions required for pro-poor growth in Africa.

Author: Tim Kelsall
ISBN-10: 1780324219
ISBN-13: 9781780324210
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2013
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

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Tim Kelsall is an associate of the Africa, Power and Politics Programme (www.institutions-africa.org) and is a resource person for the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (www.pasgr.org). He is the author of Contentious Politics, Local Governance, and the Self: A Tanzanian case study (2005), and Culture under Cross-Examination: International Justice and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2009) as well as articles published in journals including Africa, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, the Review of International Studies and Development Policy Review.
Tim Kelsall is an associate of the Africa, Power and Politics Programme (www.institutions-africa.org) and is a resource person for the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (www.pasgr.org). He is the author of Contentious Politics, Local Governance, and the Self: A Tanzanian case study (2005), and Culture under Cross-Examination: International Justice and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2009) as well as articles published in journals including Africa, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, the Review of International Studies and Development Policy Review.

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