Asian Tigers, African Lions: Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and AfricaAsian 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 |
Contents
Design Process Organization and Results | 3 |
Explanations and Implications | 27 |
Questions Approaches and Challenges | 51 |
Comparing the Agricultural Performance of Africa and Southeast Asia over the Last Fifty Years | 85 |
Part Two Comparing Indonesia and Nigeria | 129 |
Technocracy and the Institutionalization of Economic Development in Indonesia and Nigeria 19671990 | 131 |
Elites and Exchange Rate Policy in Indonesia and Nigeria | 151 |
Population Programmes and Their Implications for Poverty Reduction in Indonesia and Nigeria 19661999 | 175 |
Foreign Direct Investment in Kenya and Malaysia | 317 |
Part Four Comparing Vietnam and Tanzania | 339 |
Differential Supply Responses to Liberalization and Resultant Poverty Alleviation in Vietnam and Tanzania | 341 |
The Variation in Output and Marketing of Cashew in Tanzania and Vietnam | 367 |
The Textile Industry in Vietnam and Tanzania | 391 |
Part Five Comparing Cambodia and Uganda | 417 |
Uganda and Cambodia Compared | 419 |
Two Tales from Cambodia and Uganda | 453 |
Comparing the Experience of Nigeria and Indonesia 19671998 | 197 |
Part Three Comparing Malaysia and Kenya | 227 |
Agricultural and Rural Development in Malaysia and Kenya and the Politics of Policy | 229 |
Comparing Malaysia with Kenya | 257 |
A Comparison of the Industrial Policies and Outcomes in Kenya and Malaysia | 289 |
Comparing Uganda and Cambodia | 475 |
Part Six Some afterthoughts | 497 |
Firm Findings and Remaining Questions | 499 |
Notes on Contributors | 517 |
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