1. Introduction 2. Trade and Primary-Commodity Production Before Independence 3. The Emergence of Wage Labour 4. Trade, Industrialisation and the State of the Post-Colonial Period 5. Conclusion: Wishful Thinking or Effective Reality?
Biography
John Sender, Sheila Smith
‘Witheringly critical of dogmatic World Bank and IMF beliefs that state intervention as such is likely to reduce economic welfare … The strength of the book is its thoroughly empirical foundation’ – Journal of Southern African Studies
‘Sender and Smith have provided much to argue about and their book can be recommended as a lively treatment of its subject and not least for its caustic rebukes to the faint-hearted. Anyone wearied by the writings of neo-Marxists, dependency theorists and populists on Africa can find relief here.’ – Times Higher Education Supplement
