Asian Tigers, African Lions [electronic resource] : Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa.

ISBN:

9789004260009

9789004256538

Title:

Asian Tigers, African Lions [electronic resource] : Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa.

Author:

Berendsen, Bernard.

Personal Author:

Berendsen, Bernard.

Publication Information:

Leiden : BRILL, 2013.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 pages).

Series:

African Dynamics

General Note:

Policy and Governance in Africa's Economic Transformation: Firm Findings and Remaining QuestionsNotes on Contributors.

Contents:

List of Figures and Tables; Part OneIntroduction; Tracking Development: Design, Process, Organization, and Results; Diverging Paths: Explanations and Implications; Cross-regional Comparisons in Development: Questions, Approaches, and Challenges; Comparing the Agricultural Performance of Africa and Southeast Asia over the Last Fifty Years; Part Two Comparing Indonesia and Nigeria; Technocracy and the Institutionalization of Economic Development in Indonesia and Nigeria (1967-1990); Elites and Exchange Rate Policy in Indonesia and Nigeria.

Population Programmes and Their Implications for Poverty Reduction in Indonesia and Nigeria, 1966-1999The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development: Comparing the Experience of Nigeria and Indonesia (1967-1998); Part Three Comparing Malaysia and Kenya; Agricultural and Rural Development in Malaysia and Kenya and the Politics of Policy; The Politics of Policy for Poverty Reduction: Comparing Malaysia with Kenya; A Comparison of the Industrial Policies and Outcomes in Kenya and Malaysia; Foreign Direct Investment in Kenya and Malaysia; Part Four Comparing Vietnam and Tanzania.

Differential Supply Responses to Liberalization, and Resultant Poverty Alleviation in Vietnam and TanzaniaThe Variation in Output and Marketing of Cashew in Tanzania and Vietnam; The Textile Industry in Vietnam and Tanzania; Part Five Comparing Cambodia and Uganda; Agricultural Policies and Performance in an African and Asian Poor Agrarian Society: Uganda and Cambodia Compared; Rhetoric and Reality of Rural Road Building: Two Tales from Cambodia and Uganda; (Re- )building Educational Systems as aContribution to Growth and Well-Being: Comparing Uganda and Cambodia; Part Six Some afterthoughts.

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Subject Term:

Economic development -- Africa.

Economic development -- Southeast Asia.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- Economic policy.

Southeast Asia -- Economic policy.

Added Author:

Dietz, Ton.

Nordholt, H. G. C. Schulte.

Veen, Roel van der.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

Leiden : BRILL, 2013.

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Summary

Asian Tigers, African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and (former) diplomats related to the 'Tracking Development' research project, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and KITLV, both in Leiden, in collaboration with scholars based in Africa and Asia. The project compared the performance of growth and development of four pairs of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa during the last sixty years. It tried to answer the question how two regions with comparable levels of income per capita in the 1950s could diverge so rapidly. Why are there so many Asian tigers and not yet so many African lions? What could Africa learn from Southeast Asian development trajectories?

This book has won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2014

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This volume reports on the Tracking Development project initiated by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which involved academic institutes in the Netherlands; African and Asian students; and experts from Europe, the US, Asia, and Africa. Research design included an African PhD student in a paired Asian country, while an Asian counterpart reciprocated in Africa. The 14 comparative studies cover Nigeria/Indonesia, comparing technocracy and institutionalization, exchange rates, population policy and poverty reduction, and corruption; Malaysia/Kenya, focusing on agriculture and rural development, poverty reduction, industrial policy, and foreign direct investment; Vietnam/Tanzania, examining liberalization and poverty alleviation, the cashew market, and the textile industries; and Cambodia/Uganda, comparing agriculture, rural roads, and education. There was a clear policy orientation in all the studies, and ministry officials participated throughout. The case studies are preceded by four introductory and overview chapters, and followed by a concluding chapter helpfully titled "Policy and Governance ... Firm Findings and Remaining Questions." In a capsule, governance matters for good policy and outcomes, but the details of how and why are not always clear. As a one-volume, evidence-based response to why Asia has done so well and Africa so poorly, this book has no peer. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduate through professional audiences as well as general readers. J. H. Cobbe emeritus, Florida State University