The Asian Aspiration - Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia--and What It Should Avoid

Why has Asia developed while Africa lagged? The Asian Aspiration chronicles the stories of explosive growth and changing fortunes: the leaders, events and policy choices that lifted a billion people out of abject poverty within a single generation, the largest such shift in human history.

About the author

Greg Mills directs the Brenthurst Foundation. An adviser to several African presidents and to COMISAF in Afghanistan, he is the author of, among others, Why Africa is Poor: And What Africans Can Do About It and Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Olusegun Obasanjo was president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007 and chairperson of the African Union from 2004 to 2006.
Emily van der Merwe is an economist at The Brenthurst Foundation.
Hailemariam Desalegn was the prime minister of Ethiopia.
Introduction: The Asian Aspiration

Product details

• Authors: Hailemariam Desalegn, Emily van der Merwe, Mills, Greg Mills, Mills Greg, Olusegun Obasanjo, Obasanjo Olusegun, Emily van der Merwe
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781787384453
• ISBN: 978-1-78738-445-3
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Development Studies; Comparative Studies; Africa; Asia