A01=Emily van der Merwe
A01=Greg Mills
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Asia
Author_Emily van der Merwe
Author_Greg Mills
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- ISBN 9781787384453
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2020
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa.
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.
The relevance of Asia's example comes as Africa is facing a population
boom, which can either lead to crisis or prosperity, and as Asia is again transforming, this time out of low-cost manufacturing into hi-tech, leaving a void that is Africa's for the taking. Far from the optimistic determinism of 'Africa Rising', this book calls for unprecedented pragmatism in the pursuit of African success.
Greg Mills heads the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation; Olusegun Obasanjo is a former president of Nigeria; Hailemariam Desalegn was the prime minister of Ethiopia; Emily van der Merwe is an economist at The Brenthurst Foundation.
