of markets and the private sector in restoring economic
growth. Recent thinking has also stressed the need for ''ownership''
of economic reform by the populations of developing countries,
particularly the business community. This book studies the
business-government interactions of four African countries: Ghana,
Zambia, South Africa and Mauritius. Employing a historical
institutionalist approach, Antoinette Handley considers why and how
business in South Africa and Mauritius has developed t
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List of figures vi
Acknowledgments vii
List of abbreviations x
Introduction:the African business class and development
Part one: Institutionalizing constructive contestation
1 Ethnicity, race, and the development of the South African
business class, 1870–1989
2 The neo-liberal era in South Africa: negotiating capitalist
development
3 Business and government in Mauritius: public hostility, private
pragmatism
Part two: Business and the neo-patrimonial state
4 The emergence of neo-patrimonial business in Ghana,
1850–1989
5 State-dominant reform: Ghana in the 1990s and 2000s
6 Business and government in Zambia: too close for comfort
Conclusion:The business of economic policy-making, comparatively
speaking
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