Godfrey Kanyenze, Herbert Jauch, Alice D Kanengoni, et al.

Towards democratic development states in Southern Africa.

Harare: Weaver Press , 2016. 382 p. Soft. ISBN 9781779223074.  In English

The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years. However, this was not accompanied by structural transformation: poverty, food insecurity, unemployment and inequality persist. Structural transformation has not been - and indeed cannot be - delivered by market forces and neoliberal economic policies; it requires a state committed to development, and to achieving it in a democratic way.

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