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050	0	0	_aHD82 _b.M488 2023
082	0	4	_a337 _223/eng/20231108
100	1		_aMills, Greg, _d1962- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRich state, poor state : _bwhy some countries succeed and others fail / _cGreg Mills.
264		1	_aCape Town, South Africa : _bPenguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_ax, 374 pages : _bcharts ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: why leadership and strategy matter -- Africa. Challenges of diversification -- Separating reasons for success and failure -- Can a liberation movement reform? -- Asia. Don't be a prisoner of the past -- The value of policy change -- Europe. Agents of Change -- Getting the politics right -- Division of integration -- A study of leadership -- Latin American. Please pay for me, Argentina: the problem with politicians -- How to set reforms in stone -- North Africa and the Middle East. Between Iraq and the hard place -- Have a good crisis -- Conclusion: from poor state to rich state.
520			_a"Why do some states thrive, grow their economies and uplift their people while others, facing similar challenges, slide into low growth, social dysfunction and failure? After decades of work on the ground in states in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, bestselling author Greg Mills seeks to provide answers in Rich State, Poor State. On each continent he traverses, Mills interrogates the how and why. How did Botswana go from being one of the least-developed and poorest nations at independence to enjoying the highest rate of per capita growth of any country in the world? Why has South Africa failed to attain similar heights? How did the Baltic states achieve reforms that have positioned them among the best-performing economies in Europe? How did Vietnam overcome a traumatic past in favour of a rapid and positive development transformation? Why is Mexico - despite what Donald Trump and Narcos may have you believe - the only large developing economy that competes with China in manufacturing? Based on extensive interviews with current and former presidents, prime ministers and key government officials across the globe, as well as research from leading institutions like the World Bank, Freedom House, the Heritage Foundation, the IMF and the Brenthurst Foundation, Mills concludes that, while some states unlock reform, creating an environment where agility, dynamic change and a relentless desire for progress overwhelm political obstacles, others are stymied by vested interests and the inability to look beyond short-term gains for an elite. In the African context, a failure to reform, and to make better choices, explains the persistent continental default to economic, social and political crisis."-- _cBack cover.
650		0	_aEconomic development.
650		0	_aEconomic policy.
650		0	_aInternational economic relations.
650		6	_aDéveloppement économique.
650		6	_aPolitique économique.
650		7	_aeconomic development. _2aat
651		0	_aDeveloping countries _xEconomic policy.
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