Institutions and Reform in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective

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The end of the Cold War, the cessation of superpower rivalry, and the demise of apartheid in South Africa have offered Africans another opportunity to engage in effective institutional reform and state reconstruction. This book emphasizes the importance of institutions to economic growth and development and, using public choice theory, provides guidelines that can be used to initiate and implement an effective people-driven institutional reform program on the continent.

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.,."the work neatly synthesizes the core of public choice thinking and applies it to a selection of African governance problems. Prof. Mbaku is to be applauded for confronting the mountain of general public choice literature, the intractable difficulties of contempory Africa, and the shortage of major works bringing these two together. Summaries of key public choice insights provide the student and the specialist with readable overviews and ample bibliographic entries."-Public Choice
...the work neatly synthesizes the core of public choice thinking and applies it to a selection of African governance problems. Prof. Mbaku is to be applauded for confronting the mountain of general public choice literature, the intractable difficulties of contempory Africa, and the shortage of major works bringing these two together. Summaries of key public choice insights provide the student and the specialist with readable overviews and ample bibliographic entries.-Public Choice
This book makes an important contribution to constitutional economics in Africa....His analysis is solid and exhaustive, his argument persuasive, and his application of public choice both creative and innovative.-Journal of Third World Studies
"This book makes an important contribution to constitutional economics in Africa....His analysis is solid and exhaustive, his argument persuasive, and his application of public choice both creative and innovative."-Journal of Third World Studies
..."the work neatly synthesizes the core of public choice thinking and applies it to a selection of African governance problems. Prof. Mbaku is to be applauded for confronting the mountain of general public choice literature, the intractable difficulties of contempory Africa, and the shortage of major works bringing these two together. Summaries of key public choice insights provide the student and the specialist with readable overviews and ample bibliographic entries."-Public Choice

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JOHN MUKUM MBAKU is Professor of Economics at Weber State University, Utah, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Third World Studies. Dr. Mbaku's research interests include public choice, consitutional political economy, trade integration, intergroup relations, and Africa.