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The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective / Lindsay Whitfield (Roskilde University, Denmark), Ole Therkildsen (Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen), Lars Buur (Roskilde University, Denmark), Anne Mette Kjær (Aarhus University, Denmark).
Lippincott Library HD3616.A35 W45 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitfield, Lindsay, 1978- author.
- Therkildsen, Ole, author.
- Buur, Lars, author.
- Kjær, Anne Mette, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial policy--Africa.
- Industrial policy.
- Business enterprises.
- Africa.
- Business enterprises--Africa.
- Africa--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- The puzzle of limited economic transformation in Africa
- The case for economic transformation and industrial policy
- Assessing economic transformation in Africa
- Elaborated political settlements theory and clientelism in Africa
- Increased vulnerability and contestation in Mozambique and Tanzania
- Dispersed power and elite fragmentation in Ghana and Uganda
- Mozambique : between elite capture and pockets of efficiency
- Tanzania : intense contestation within a weak dominant party
- Ghana : competitive clientelism and weak capitalists
- Uganda : competing factions and conflicting elite interests
- Conclusions and perspectives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107105317
- 1107105315
- OCLC:
- 901386666
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