The Asian Aspiration

Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia--and What It Should Avoid

Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Hailemariam Desalegn, Emily van der Merwe (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2020
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78738-445-3 (ISBN)

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In 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa.

Why has Asia developed while Africa lagged? The Asian Aspiration chronicles the stories of explosive growth and changing fortunes: the leaders, events and policy choices that lifted a billion people out of abject poverty within a single generation, the largest such shift in human history.

The relevance of Asia's example comes as Africa is facing a population
boom, which can either lead to crisis or prosperity, and as Asia is again transforming, this time out of low-cost manufacturing into hi-tech, leaving a void that is Africa's for the taking. Far from the optimistic determinism of 'Africa Rising', this book calls for unprecedented pragmatism in the pursuit of African success.

Greg Mills heads the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation; Olusegun Obasanjo is a former president of Nigeria; Hailemariam Desalegn was the prime minister of Ethiopia; Emily van der Merwe is an economist at The Brenthurst Foundation.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.07.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-78738-445-4 / 1787384454
ISBN-13	978-1-78738-445-3 / 9781787384453
Zustand	Neuware