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| The Baobab and the Mango Tree: Africa, the Asian Tigers and the Developing World | 
 enlarge | Authors: Scott Thompson, Nicholas Thompson
Publisher: Zed Books
Category: Book
List Price: $28.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1349498
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1856498107
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.95
EAN: 9781856498104
ASIN: 1856498107
Publication Date: January 6, 2001
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Product Description
This is a book dealing with the big questions about development:
What is development?
Can Third World countries ever hope to 'catch up'?
Can a development path be found that avoids indefinite impoverishment on the one hand, and environmental destruction on the other?
What is the relationship, if any, between economic growth and political development?
Can a country that has failed hitherto create for itself a second chance?
In their wide-ranging and insightful exploration, the authors take as their main examples two contrasting countries: Ghana, the first African colony to win independence, but which plunged into a downward spiral of economic decay; and Thailand, which was poorer than West Africa in the 1950s, but which went on to achieve decades of extraordinarily rapid economic growth, albeit at considerable environmental and human cost.
Intensely readable, this thought-provoking and courageous book brings the big questions about development to a wide audience of college students and interested readers.
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A thoughtful narrative of modern development January 31, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was unfamiliar with the trends in African and Southeast Asian development before reading this book ... the title and subject seemed interesting. However, during the course of my reading it, I have grown significantly more knowledgable about how "3rd world" nations are on their own tracts to develop and enter the ranks of "modern societies".
He begins with a short history of both African and Asain developments, the key players, and background that sets each region up before they take charge of their own destinies. From there, he investigates the cultural, economic, environmental, and international pressures that disseminate one economy from another, as well as invesitgating the ultimate consequences of this growth.
This book is well-written, interesting evenfor a non political science or economics major, and thought-provoking to the core. I highly recommend this book to any who would be interested in learning more about modern development in differing regions of the world.
A must buy book for everyone November 8, 2001
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am from Thailand and a native Thai.
I read his book; he is my professor.
I am impressed with his idea- the so " socratic idea".
I love his book and everyone should buy it.
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