Duality by design: the global race to build Africa's infrastructure

Africa's rapid population growth and urbanisation has made its socioeconomic development a global priority. But as China ramps up its assistance in bridging Africa's basic infrastructure gap to the detriment of institutions building, warnings of a debt trap have followed. Building upon an...

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Weitere Verfasser: Gil, Nuno ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Stafford, Anne 1963- (HerausgeberIn), Musonda, Innocent 1971- (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Africa's rapid population growth and urbanisation has made its socioeconomic development a global priority. But as China ramps up its assistance in bridging Africa's basic infrastructure gap to the detriment of institutions building, warnings of a debt trap have followed. Building upon an extensive body of evidence, the editors argue that developing institutions and infrastructure are two equally desirable but organisationally incompatible objectives. In conceptualising this duality by design, a new theoretical framework proposes better understanding of the differing approaches to development espoused by traditional agencies, such as the World Bank, and emergent Chinese agencies. This new framing moves the debate away from the fruitless search for a 'superior' form of organising, and instead suggests looking for complementarities in competing forms of organising for development. For students and researchers in international business, strategic and public management, and complex systems, as well as practitioners in international development and business in emergent markets
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 424 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108562492
DOI:10.1017/9781108562492

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