Full Description
Asian 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
Contents
List of figures and tables
Part I Introduction
1. Tracking Development: Design, process, organization, and results
Bernard Berendsen & Roel van der Veen
2. Diverging paths: Explanations and implications
David Henley & Jan Kees van Donge
3. Cross-regional comparisons in development: Questions, approaches, and challenges
Peter Lewis
4. Comparing the agricultural performance of Africa and Southeast Asia over the last fifty years
Ton Dietz
Part II Comparing Indonesia and Nigeria
5. Technocracy and the institutionalization of economic development in Indonesia and Nigeria (1967-1990)
Riwanto Tirtosudarmo
6. Elites and exchange rate policy in Indonesia and Nigeria
Ahmad Helmy Fuady
7. Population programmes and their implications for poverty reduction in Indonesia and Nigeria, 1966-1999
Akinyinka Akinyoade
8. The impact of corruption on economic development: Comparing the experience of Nigeria and Indonesia (1967-1998)
David U. Enweremadu
Part III Comparing Malaysia and Kenya
9. Agricultural and rural development in Malaysia and Kenya and the politics of policy
Joseph Fernando
10. The politics of policy for poverty reduction: Comparing Malaysia with Kenya
Othieno Nyanjom
11. A comparison of the industrial policies and outcomes in Kenya and Malaysia
Bethuel K. Kinuthia & Ton Dietz
12. Foreign direct investment in Kenya and Malaysia
Bethuel K. Kinuthia & Mansoob Murshed
Part IV Comparing Vietnam and Tanzania
13. Differential supply responses to liberalization, and resultant poverty alleviation in Vietnam and Tanzania
Jan Kees van Donge
14. The variation in output and marketing of cashew in Tanzania and Vietnam
Blandina Kilama
15. The textile industry in Vietnam and Tanzania
Jamal Msami
Part V Comparing Cambodia and Uganda
16. Agricultural policies and performance in an African and Asian poor agrarian society: Uganda and Cambodia compared
André Leliveld & Han ten Brummelhuis
17. Rhetoric and reality of rural road building: Two tales from Cambodia and Uganda
Kheang Un
18. (Re-)building educational systems as a contribution to growth and well-being: Comparing Uganda and Cambodia
Leang Un
Part VI Some afterthoughts
19. Policy and governance in Africa's economic transformation: Firm findings and remaining questions
David Booth
List of authors
