(Ebook) Asian Tigers, African Lions : Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa by Bernard Berendsen; Ton Dietz; H. G. C. Schulte Nordholt; Roel van der Veen ISBN 9789004260009, 9004260005

(Ebook) Asian Tigers, African Lions : Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa by Bernard Berendsen; Ton Dietz; H. G. C. Schulte Nordholt; Roel van der Veen ISBN 9789004260009, 9004260005

Asian Tigers, African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and (former) diplomats related to the 'Tracking Development' research project, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and KITLV, both in Leiden, in collaboration with scholars based in Africa and Asia. The project compared the performance of growth and development of four pairs of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa during the last sixty years. It tried to answer the question how two regions with comparable levels of income per capita in the 1950s could diverge so rapidly. Why are there so many Asian tigers and not yet so many African lions? What could Africa learn from Southeast Asian development trajectories?