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Neoliberal Africa

The Impact Of Global Social Engineering

Bibliographic Data

ID23398277
AuthorsGail Harrison (0000-0003-4163-1338, corresponding author), Graham Harrison
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNeoliberal Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherZed Books (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350221499
OpenAlexW4245027737
ISBN9781350221499
LanguageEN
Citations received82

Neoliberalism has shaped African development for nearly thirty years. As such, it is not an economic 'shock' or a 'structural adjustment', but rather a historic shift in Africa's development politics and policy. This book explores the ways in which African countries have experienced the neoliberal project, highlighting how this project has gone beyond economic liberalisation and towards a bolder social transformation. As an ideology, neoliberalism projects an end-point not simply of a market economy but of a market society. After thirty years of projects, aid disbursement, technical assistance, and conditionality, this book maps out the extent to which African states have cleaved to neoliberal directives. It suggests that neoliberal 'progress' in Africa is notably limited in spite of the resources behind it and the lack of alternatives to it.

Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Ideology · Liberalization · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Shock (circulatory) · Sociology · International Development and Aid

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Unique citing works82
Citations per year5,13
Citation span2010 - 2026 (17)
Citation velocitycurrent
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