Business and the state in Africa : economic policy-making in the neo-liberal era /

The dominant developmental approach in Africa over the last twenty years has been to advocate the role of markets and the private sector in restoring economic growth. Recent thinking has also stressed the need for 'ownership' of economic reform by the populations of developing countries, p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Handley, Antoinette
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Industrial policy > Africa.
Business enterprises > Africa.
Politique industrielle > Afrique.
Entreprises > Afrique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
Business enterprises
Economic policy
Industrial policy
Africa > Economic policy.
Afrique > Politique économique.
Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the African business class and development
  • Part I. Institutionalizing Constructive Contestation
  • Ethnicity, race, and the development of the South African business class, 1870-1989
  • The neo-liberal era in South Africa: negotiating capitalist development
  • Business and government in Mauritius: public hostility, private pragmatism
  • Part II. Business and the Neo-patrimonial State
  • The emergence of neo-patrimonial business in Ghana, 1850-1989
  • State-dominant reform: Ghana in the 1990s and 2000s
  • Business and government in Zambia: too close for comfort
  • Conclusion: comparatively speaking: the business of economic policymaking.

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