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The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia -- And What It Should Avoid

The Asian Aspiration: Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia -- And What It Should Avoid

Mills, Greg
Obasanjo, Olusegun
Van Der Merwe, Emily

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1787384454
ISBN13: 9781787384453
Publisher: Hurst & Co
Published: Dec 1 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa.

Why has Asia developed while Africa lagged? The Asian Aspiration chronicles the stories of explosive growth and changing fortunes: the leaders, events and policy choices that lifted a billion people out of abject poverty within a single generation, the largest such shift in human history.

The relevance of Asia's example comes as Africa is facing a population

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