TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mills,Greg
TI  - Why states recover: changing walking societies into winning nations -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe 
SN  - 1849044619
AV  - HC21 M657 W 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Hurst & Company, 
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Nation-building
KW  - Social history
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Asia
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Africa
N1  - HKBU Library
N2  - 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
ER  -