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, Perdikis, Nicholas (Author), Yeung, May T. (Author), Kerr, William A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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