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Why States Recover

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Why States Recover

By Greg Mills

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About the book

State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions - warlords - around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi under President Bingu. During his abbreviated second term in office, the country's economy collapsed as a result of poor policies and personalised politics. On the surface, save the petrol queues, it...Show more

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9781849044615

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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Published year

2014

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1

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Why States Recover

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Paperback

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