Austin, Gareth (2000) Markets, democracy and African economic growth: liberalism and Afro-pessimism reconsidered. The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, 89 (357). pp. 543-555. ISSN 0035-8533
Abstract
The links between good governance and economic reform are widely assumed within a liberal perspective and have been embodied in the structural adjustment policies adopted in sub-Saharan Africa. The questionable propositions that market reform offers the most efficient path to economic growth and that democratic reform is a necessary condition for economic reform to fulfil its potential are critically examined and suggested to be deficient. The existence of a market economy is not the only effective framework for growth; nor is the presence of market institutions a sufficient or necessary condition for the emergence of demands for greater democracy. Finally, democracy is neither a necessary condition for growth nor a generator of growth-creating reforms.
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/00358533.ht... |
| Additional Information: | © 2000 The Round Table Ltd |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Sets: | Departments > Economic History Collections > Economists Online |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/18318/ |
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