The Baobab and the Mango Tree: Africa, the Asian Tigers and the Developing World
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Book Overview
This is a book dealing with the big questions about development:
- What is development?- Can Third World countries ever hope to 'catch up'?
- Can a development path be found that avoids indefinite impoverishment on the one hand, and environmental destruction on the other?
- What is the relationship, if any, between economic growth and political development?
- Can a country that has failed hitherto create for itself a second chance? In their wide-ranging and insightful exploration, the authors take as their main examples two contrasting countries: Ghana, the first African colony to win independence, but which plunged into a downward spiral of economic decay; and Thailand, which was poorer than West Africa in the 1950s, but which went on to achieve decades of extraordinarily rapid economic growth, albeit at considerable environmental and human cost. Intensely readable, this thought-provoking and courageous book brings the big questions about development to a wide audience of college students and interested readers.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1856498107
ISBN13:9781856498104
Release Date:October 2000
Publisher:Zed Books
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
A thoughtful narrative of modern development
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I was unfamiliar with the trends in African and Southeast Asian development before reading this book ... the title and subject seemed interesting. However, during the course of my reading it, I have grown significantly more knowledgable about how "3rd world" nations are on their own tracts to develop and enter the ranks of "modern societies". He begins with a short history of both African and Asain developments, the key players, and background that sets each region up before they take charge of their own destinies. From there, he investigates the cultural, economic, environmental, and international pressures that disseminate one economy from another, as well as invesitgating the ultimate consequences of this growth. This book is well-written, interesting evenfor a non political science or economics major, and thought-provoking to the core. I highly recommend this book to any who would be interested in learning more about modern development in differing regions of the world.
A must buy book for everyone
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I am from Thailand and a native Thai.I read his book; he is my professor.I am impressed with his idea- the so " socratic idea".I love his book and everyone should buy it.
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