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Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
Greg Mills
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Description for Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
Paperback. The literature on the 'developing world' is dominated by narratives of state failure, but few analysts have, until now, addressed why some of them turn it around. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTF; JPB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 744.
State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions - warlords - around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi under President Bingu. During his abbreviated second term in office, the country's economy collapsed as a result of poor policies and personalised politics. On the surface, save the petrol queues, it was stable; underneath, the polity was fractured and the economy broken. Between these two extremes of state failure are ... Read more
State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions - warlords - around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi under President Bingu. During his abbreviated second term in office, the country's economy collapsed as a result of poor policies and personalised politics. On the surface, save the petrol queues, it was stable; underneath, the polity was fractured and the economy broken. Between these two extremes of state failure are ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849044615
SKU
V9781849044615
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About Greg Mills
Greg Mills is director of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation. He is widely published on international affairs, development and security, an advisor to African governments, a regular columnist for local and international newspapers, and the author of the best-selling book Why Africa is Poor - and what Africans can do about it.
Reviews for Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
'The key reason behind economic failure is, Greg Mills illustrates, politics. But he also convincingly shows how they can be fixed ... led by those with the most at stake: locals.'
Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion
'Seldom does a writer analyse the problem and also identify the solution. Greg Mills manages in Why States Recover both ... Read more
Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion
'Seldom does a writer analyse the problem and also identify the solution. Greg Mills manages in Why States Recover both ... Read more