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South Africa's Economic Prospects
Challenge (1996)
  • John B Hall, Professor, Portland State University
Abstract
Time and again, African leaders have rejected the European colonial legacy as a paradigm for economic development and have pursued various, often nationalistic programs deemed to be uniquely African. But no successful examples deserving of emulation have emerged, as some have failed more miserably than others. There have, of course, been hybrid Africanized-European paradigms: African versions of Marxist humanism, of socialism, of central planning. Then there are the Hitleresque or Stalinesque strongman dictatorships. There have even been examples of lackluster British and French-style parliamentary wrangling. Each of these has typically ended at the same point: stagnating or declining living standards for the population...
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Publication Date
January, 1996
Publisher Statement
Copyright 1995 by M. W. Sharpe. Inc.
Citation Information
Hall, John. "South Africa's Economic Prospects." Challenge 39.1 (1996): 52-56.