02104cam a2200373 i 4500 150630s2014 enka b 001 0 eng d 1849044619 9781849044615 SDU HC21 M657 W 2014 Mills, Greg, 188353 Why states recover : changing walking societies into winning nations -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe / Greg Mills. London : Hurst & Company, 2014 689 p. : ill. HKBU Library State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions -- headed by warlords -- around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi. During President Bingu's second term in office, the country's economy collapsed as a result of poor policies and personalised politics. On the surface, save the petrol queues, it was stable; underneath, the polity was fractured, the economy broken. Between these two extremes of state failure are all manner of examples. Drawing on research in more than thirty countries, incorporating interviews with a dozen leaders Mills disaggregates state failure and identifies instances of recovery in Latin America, Asia and Africa. All the while he returns to his key questions: how do countries recover, and what roles ought insiders and outsiders play to aid that process?--Jacket. Economic history. Economic development. Nation-building. Social history. Economic development. Economic history. Nation-building. Politics and government Social history. Asia Economic conditions. Asia Politics and government. Africa Economic conditions. Africa Politics and government. Africa. Asia. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 102611 102611 0 0 lcc 0 HC0021 M657 W2014 0 CGB 283903 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-10-03 2 0 HC21 M657 W 2014 1000360816 2025-10-03 00:00:00 C.1 2025-10-03 GBE