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Scarcity, Choice, and Public Policy in Middle Africa
Donald Rothchild and Robert L. Curry, Jr.
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University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd. London, England
Copyright 1978 by The Regents of the University of California
ISBN 0-520-03378-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-50255 Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
vii
Part I: Introduction
1. Political Economy and Policy Choice in the Third World
3
Part II: Shaping Policy Choice under Scarcity
2. Changing Institutional Resources
37
3. System Goals, Decision-making Rules, and Collective Choices
91
Part III: Implementing Policy Choices for Development
4. Global Market Contacts: Bargaining Between Multinational Companies and African Governments
151
5. Beyond the Nation-State: Principles of Economic Integration
187
6. Policy Integration and External Action: A Minimalist Choice
221
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7. Global Assistance for Development: Choosing an Appropriate Policy to Cope with Scarcity
267
Part IV: Conclusion: Evaluating the Prospects
8. Reducing Scarcity and Expanding Choice
301
Index
337
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Although frequent appeals are heard for increased interdisciplinary study and research, there is, at present, precious little material of this sort available to the serious analyst or policy maker. This volume attempts to compensate in part for this glaring lack. By uniting the disciplines of political science and economics, it seeks to probe the policy alternatives availing to African decision-makers under the difficult circumstances now prevailing. We hope that this effort will stimulate further policy-relevant research on Third World issues.
In a broad-ranging work of this type, our indebtedness to colleagues, foundations, librarians, university and research institutions, and civil servants in African and non-African countries goes far beyond anything that we can properly acknowledge. We apologize at the outset to all those whose contributions are not given specific recognition here. Nevertheless, for purposes of brevity, we shall limit ourselves to mentioning only those who have played a direct and substantial role in the shaping of this work. Since we have not always accepted their advice, they can in no way be held accountable for the final result.
In particular, we are deeply indebted to Larry Wade, Alexander Groth, David Laitin, Robert Lieber, Glen Gambles,
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Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, Cynthia Brantley, Victor Olorunsola, Ralph Braibanti, Josephine Milburn, Claude Welch, and Edward Olson for careful and insightful comments on various chapters. Marlyn Madison, Karen Fowler, and Lako Tongun provided helpful research assistance, Mimi Dixon and Patricia Arthur gave secretarial assistance most cheerfully, and Linda Eernisse displayed commendable patience when typing (and retyping) the work in its entirety. A part of Chapter 1 was presented as an Open Lecture at the University of Ghana, Legon and was published by the Ghana Universities Press, and a part of Chapter 4 was published in the Journal of Modern African Studies (vol. 12, no. 2, June 1974). We wish to thank the Registrar of the University of Ghana, Legon and the Journal editor and Cambridge University Press for permission to reuse these materials. The appendix to Chapter 1 is based on pages 69 through 73 of A Logic of Public Policy by L. L. Wade and R. L. Curry, Jr., published by the Duxbury Press. We wish to thank Duxbury for permission to use this section. Financial costs were covered by faculty research grants at the University of California, Davis.
But over and above all of these forms of assistance is the steady and unwavering support we have received from our wives, Edith W. Rothchild and Dana Curry. We are taking the opportunity of dedicating our book to them in recognition of this fact.
DONALD ROTHCHILD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS AND UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, LEGON
ROBERT L. CURRY, JR. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO
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