The Politics of Africa's Economic Recovery

by Richard Sandbrook

Book Overview

The waning of the Cold War means that major political powers no longer feel compelled to support African authoritarianism. Revised official consensus holds that, in Africa as elsewhere, political reform must accompany economic adjustment. According to this view, African recovery requires a reduction in the size and economic role of monopolistic and inefficient states, and their transformation into accountable liberal democracies. Is this a desirable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521425638
• ISBN13: 9780521425636
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"