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Regional trade agreements proliferated in Africa in the wake of
independence from colonial rule. For the most part these agreements
failed to deliver the regional integration and economic benefits
that were promised, and amounted to little more than a propaganda
coup for the leaders that signed them.This book explores
conventional explanations of the failure of these agreements, and
challenges the accepted wisdom, highlighting the symbiotic
relationship between 'Big Man' politics and crony capitalism. The
rise of second generation regional trade agreements in the first
decade of the twenty-first century emphasises the pressing need for
a revised assessment of the aims, consequences and scope of these
agreements. This book focuses on the revitalized East African
Community to examine the potential benefits of modern agreements to
foster economic development and the hurdles that must be overcome
to realise this potential.
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.
How do you measure the progress countries are making in economic
development? Should measurements focus on per capita income or
output? Or should assessments also consider education, health, a
clean environment, or a participatory political system? These
questions have vexed national leaders, international donor
agencies, and development practitioners for decades. This book was
conceived to address the lack of definitive, comprehensive measures
of development among policymakers, economists, and other social
scientists. It presents a unique and innovative measurement system
for country progress in six aspects of development: economic
performance, competitiveness, education, health, environment, and
democracy and freedom. The authors scored over 100 countries
individually and plotted their development performance along six
vectors, allowing them to be benchmarked against one another. They
illustrate at a glance whether the country's development is
balanced and allows the country's progress to be monitored over
time. This book presents the conceptual framework supporting a
Development Web model, the scoring systems, as well as 100
individual Country Development Webs accompanied by discussions of
their scores and country conditions. Copublished with SRI
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