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African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999

African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999

Van de Walle, Nicolas

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Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

EconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521008360
ISBN13: 9780521008365
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Sep 24 2001
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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