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Africa's Development Impasse

By Stefan Andreasson

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Africa's Development Impasse

By Stefan Andreasson

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Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
270
Release Date:
2010-02-15
Publication Date:
2010-02-11
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1842779729
ISBN13:
9781842779729
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
385 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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