{"product_id":"africas-development-impasse-rethinking-the-political-economy-of-transformation-9781842779729","title":"Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stefan Andreasson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Zed Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Economy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082016579735,"sku":"9781842779729","price":4092.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781842779729.webp?v=1767262962","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/africas-development-impasse-rethinking-the-political-economy-of-transformation-9781842779729","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}