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BL
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1032834
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b787204
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| Main Entry
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Handley, Antoinette.
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| Title & Author
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Business and the state in Africa : : economic policy-making in the neo-liberal era /\ Antoinette Handley.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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051141451X
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: 0511415192
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: 0511491832
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: 9780511414510
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: 9780511415197
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: 9780511491832
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0521713714
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0521886058
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9780521713719
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9780521886055
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-285) and index.
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| Abstract
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The dominant developmental approach in Africa over the last twenty years has been to advocate the role of markets and the private sector in restoring economic growth. Recent thinking has also stressed the need for 'ownership' of economic reform by the populations of developing countries, particularly the business community. This book studies the business-government interactions of four African countries: Ghana, Zambia, South Africa and Mauritius. Employing a historical institutionalist approach, Antoinette Handley considers why and how business in South Africa and Mauritius has developed the capacity to constructively contest the making of economic policy while, conversely, business in Zambia and Ghana has struggled to develop any autonomous political capacity. Paying close attention to the mutually constitutive interactions between business and the state, Handley considers the role of timing and how ethnicised and racialised identities can affect these interactions in profound and consequential ways.
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Business enterprises-- Africa.
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Industrial policy-- Africa.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- Business Development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Development-- General.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Government Business.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Structural Adjustment.
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Business enterprises.
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Economic policy.
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Industrial policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Economic Policy.
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Africa, Economic policy.
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Africa.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.96
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| LC Classification
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HD3616.A36H36 2008eb
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| NLM classification
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83.32bcl
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