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Review of Conventional Explanations

In: Re-Inventing Africa’s Development

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  • Jong-Dae Park

    (Embassy of the Republic of Korea)

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This chapter is aimed at objectively assessing various possible reasons for Africa’s poverty and underdevelopment. It reviews the conventional or popular explanations for Africa’s prolonged predicament, as well as other factors possibly negatively impacting Africa. The topics addressed are colonial legacies, ethnicism and neo-patrimonialism; institutions, governance and democracy, the role of government; natural conditions like climate and geography, and other factors including corruption and globalization. The author sizes up the existing views or discourses from critical perspective and, in the process, sheds new lights on what are commonly misunderstood.

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  • Jong-Dae Park, 2019. "Review of Conventional Explanations," Springer Books, in: Re-Inventing Africa’s Development, chapter 0, pages 63-109, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-03946-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03946-2_3
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