African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999
Nicolas Van de Walle
This book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures as is often argued. Far from being prevented from undertaking reforms by societal interest and pressure groups, clientelism within the state elite, ideological factors and low state capacity have resulted in some limited reform, but much prevarication and manipulation of the reform process, by governments that do not really believe that reform will be effective.
年:
2001
出版商:
Cambridge University Press
語言:
english
頁數:
306
ISBN 10:
0521803640
ISBN 13:
9780521803649
系列:
Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
文件:
PDF, 30.08 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2001