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BL
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1002460
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b756830
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| Main Entry
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Calderisi, Robert.
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| Title & Author
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The trouble with Africa : : why foreign aid isn't working /\ Robert Calderisi.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2006.
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| Page. NO
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249 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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1403971250
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: 1403976511
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: 9781403971258
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: 9781403976512
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index.
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| Contents
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I: What sets Africa apart -- Looking for excuses -- Africa from different angles -- Thugs in power -- Culture, corruption, and correctness -- II: Stories from the front line -- Tanzania: African socialism -- Ivory coast: the end of a miracle -- Discord in Central Africa -- III: Facing the facts -- Defying economics -- The trouble with foreign aid -- The Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline -- A clash of values -- IV: Facing the future -- Ten ways of changing Africa -- A new day.
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| Abstract
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Argues that many of Africa's problems are related to such internal factors as market mismanagement, anti-business sentiments, and fatalistic African family values, in an account that proposes radical solutions to shortcomings in foreign aid and debt relief.
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Economic assistance-- Africa.
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Aide économique-- Afrique.
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Aide au développement.
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Analyse comparative.
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Développement économique.
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Economic assistance.
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Economic history.
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Entwicklungshilfe
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Investissements étrangers.
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Krise
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Politics and government.
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Politische Krise
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Social conditions.
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Unterentwicklung
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Entwicklungshilfe.
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Africa, Economic conditions, 1960-
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Africa, Politics and government, 1960-
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Africa, Social conditions, 1960-
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Afrique, Conditions économiques, 1960-
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Afrique, Conditions sociales, 1960-
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Afrique, Politique et gouvernement, 1960-
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Africa.
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Afrika
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Afrique subsaharienne.
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Schwarzafrika.
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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| Dewey Classification
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338.91096
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| LC Classification
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HC800.C245 2006
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| NLM classification
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MK 9000rvk
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QM 353rvk
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