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Economic Development Through Regional Trade A Role for the New East African Community? /

Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian po...

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Main Authors: Kimbugwe, Kato. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Perdikis, Nicholas. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Yeung, May T. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kerr, William A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Subjects:
Development economics.
Regional economics.
Economic policy.
Macroeconomics.
Economic growth.
Trade.
Development Economics.
Regional/Spatial Science.
Economic Policy.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Economic Growth.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369924
Summary:Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.
Physical Description:XVII, 263 p. online resource.
ISBN:9780230369924

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