Africa Unchained : The Blueprint for Africa's Future

G. Ayittey

ISBN 10: 1403973865 / ISBN 13: 9781403973863

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan Us Sep 2006, 2006

Beschreibung

Neuware - In Africa Unchained , George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions. Looking at how Africa can modernize, build, and improve their indigenous institutions which have been castigated by African leaders as 'backward and primitive', Ayittey argues that Africa should build and expand upon these traditions of free markets and free trade. Asking why the poorest Africans haven't been able to prosper in the Twenty-first-century, Ayittey makes the answer obvious: their economic freedom was snatched from them. War and conflict replaced peace and the infrastructure crumbled. In a book that will be pondered over and argued about as much as his previous volumes, Ayittey looks at the possibilities for indigenous structures to revive a troubled continent.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Africa Unchained : The Blueprint for Africa's Future
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan Us Sep 2006
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1403973865
• ISBN-13: 9781403973863
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 211B x 141 H x 40 T Millimeter Breite: 211 mm, Höhe: 141 mm, Tiefe: 40 mm
• Gewicht: 458 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Why haven’t the poorest Africans been able to prosper in the twenty-first century? Celebrated economist George Ayittey thinks the answer is obvious: economic freedom was denied to them, first by foreign colonial powers and now by indigenous leaders with similarly oppressive practices. As war and conflict replaced peace, Africa’s infrastructure crumbled. Instead of bemoaning the myriad difficulties facing the continent today, Ayittey boldly proposes a program of development--a way forward--for Africa. Africa Unchained investigates how Africa can modernize, build, and improve its indigenous institutions, and argues forcefully that Africa should build and expand upon traditions of free markets and free trade rather than continuing to use exploitative economic structures. The economic model here is uniquely African and takes little heed from the developed world; this is sure to be a highly controversial plan for moving Africa forward.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

GEORGE B.N. AYITTEY is Distinguished Economist in Residence at George Washington University. He is the author of Africa Betrayed and Africa in Chaos (both Palgrave Macmillan).