| Description |
1 online resource (538 pages) |
| Series |
African Dynamics |
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African dynamics.
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| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables; Part OneIntroduction; Tracking Development: Design, Process, Organization, and Results; Diverging Paths: Explanations and Implications; Cross-regional Comparisons in Development: Questions, Approaches, and Challenges; Comparing the Agricultural Performance of Africa and Southeast Asia over the Last Fifty Years; Part Two Comparing Indonesia and Nigeria; Technocracy and the Institutionalization of Economic Development in Indonesia and Nigeria (1967-1990); Elites and Exchange Rate Policy in Indonesia and Nigeria |
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Population Programmes and Their Implications for Poverty Reduction in Indonesia and Nigeria, 1966-1999The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development: Comparing the Experience of Nigeria and Indonesia (1967-1998); Part Three Comparing Malaysia and Kenya; Agricultural and Rural Development in Malaysia and Kenya and the Politics of Policy; The Politics of Policy for Poverty Reduction: Comparing Malaysia with Kenya; A Comparison of the Industrial Policies and Outcomes in Kenya and Malaysia; Foreign Direct Investment in Kenya and Malaysia; Part Four Comparing Vietnam and Tanzania |
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Differential Supply Responses to Liberalization, and Resultant Poverty Alleviation in Vietnam and TanzaniaThe Variation in Output and Marketing of Cashew in Tanzania and Vietnam; The Textile Industry in Vietnam and Tanzania; Part Five Comparing Cambodia and Uganda; Agricultural Policies and Performance in an African and Asian Poor Agrarian Society: Uganda and Cambodia Compared; Rhetoric and Reality of Rural Road Building: Two Tales from Cambodia and Uganda; (Re- )building Educational Systems as aContribution to Growth and Well-Being: Comparing Uganda and Cambodia; Part Six Some afterthoughts |
| Summary |
Asian Tigers, African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and (former) diplomats related to the 'Tracking Development' research project, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and KITLV, both in Leiden, in collaboration with scholars based in Africa and Asia. The project compared the performance of growth and development of four pairs of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa during the last sixty years. It tried to answer the question how two regions with comparable levels of income per capita in the 1950s |
| Notes |
Policy and Governance in Africa's Economic Transformation: Firm Findings and Remaining QuestionsNotes on Contributors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Africa
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Economic development -- Southeast Asia
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Economic development
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Economic policy
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Economic policy
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Southeast Asia -- Economic policy
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| Subject |
Africa
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Southeast Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dietz, Ton
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Nordholt, H. G. C. Schulte
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Veen, Roel van der
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| ISBN |
9789004260009 |
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9004260005 |
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9789004256538 |
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9004256539 |
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