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The African State in Transition

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Zaki Ergas

    1. Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Zaki Ergas
      Pages 1-22

  4. The Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. The Crisis of the Socialist State in Africa

      • Marina S. Ottaway
      Pages 169-190

    3. The Military and the State in Africa: Problems of Political Transition

      • Claude E. Welch Jr
      Pages 191-215

    4. Foreign Exchange and the Economic Crisis in Africa

      • Carol Lancaster
      Pages 217-235

    5. The Politics of Agricultural Pricing in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Robert H. Bates
      Pages 237-261

    6. Basic Human Needs and the African State

      • Robert L. Curry Jr
      Pages 263-293

    7. In Search of Development in Africa

      • Zaki Ergas
      Pages 295-329

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 331-340
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In the first twenty-five years of African independence the behaviour of the African state elites has not been, with a few notable exceptions, conducive to self-sustained development. What are the reasons for this sorry state of affairs? What can be done to reverse that unfortunate trend? These are the two overarching questions with which this book attempts to grapple.

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  • Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Zaki Ergas

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