| Asian Tigers, African Lions: Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa Contributor(s): Berendsen, Bernard, Dietz, Ton, Schulte Nordholt, H. G. C. |
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ISBN: 9004256539 ISBN-13: 9789004256538 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $84.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 338.959 |
| LCCN: 2013033845 |
| Series: African Dynamics |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.90 lbs) 538 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 could diverge so rapidly. Why are there so many Asian tigers and not yet so many African lions? What could Africa learn from Southeast Asian development trajectories? This book has won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2014 |