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States and Markets in Africa
States and Markets in Africa
By Robert H. Bates
University of California Press, 1981, 176 pp
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In its main outlines, this analysis of how public policy has fostered Africa's agricultural decline does not break new ground; however, the description of how that policy has worked-the interests and mechanisms discriminating against the rural sector-is incomparable in its thoroughness.

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