{"product_id":"9781856498104","title":"Baobab and the Mango Tree Lessons about Development - African and Asian Contrasts","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBaobab and the Mango Tree\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eLessons about Development - African and Asian Contrasts\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNicholas Thompson | Scott Thompson\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Africa \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book dealing with the big questions about development:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e· What is development?\u003cbr\u003e· Can Third World countries ever hope to 'catch up'?\u003cbr\u003e· Can a development path be found that avoids indefinite impoverishment on the one hand, and environmental destruction on the other?\u003cbr\u003e· What is the relationship, if any, between economic growth and political development?\u003cbr\u003e· Can a country that has failed hitherto create for itself a second chance?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn their wide-ranging and insightful exploration, the authors take as their main examples two contrasting countries: Ghana, the first African colony to win independence, but which plunged into a downward spiral of economic decay; and Thailand, which was  poorer than West Africa in the 1950s, but which went on to achieve decades of extraordinarily rapid economic growth, albeit at considerable environmental and human cost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntensely readable, this thought-provoking and courageous book brings the big questions about development to a wide audience of college students and interested readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Scott Thompson is Director of Southeast Asia Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A former Rhodes Scholar, he has a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University. He is the author\/editor of eleven books including Ghana's Foreign Policy: 1957-66 (Princeton University Press); The Philippines in Crisis (St Martin's Press); and Lessons of Vietnam (Praeger). His articles have appeared in all major US newspapers and in Foreign Policy, International Security, and other journals. During his long academic career, he has held four presidential appointments in Washington DC -- at the Pentagon, the United States Institute of Peace, and the United States Information Agency. He has also been a White House Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Scott is Editor of the Washington Monthly. A graduate from Stanford, Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and a triple major in Economics, Political Science and Environmental Science, he worked while at university as the California Coordinator of the Student Environmental Action Coalition, Media Coordinator of the Free Burma Coalition and Student Body Vice President. After graduating, he became a journalist in West Africa and Southeast Asia before being employed by the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington DC. He has published essays in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor  and many other US newspapers and magazines. This is his first book.\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Scott Thompson is Director of Southeast Asia Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A former Rhodes Scholar, he has a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University. He is the author\/editor of eleven books including Ghana's Foreign Policy: 1957-66 (Princeton University Press); The Philippines in Crisis (St Martin's Press); and Lessons of Vietnam (Praeger). His articles have appeared in all major US newspapers and in Foreign Policy, International Security, and other journals. During his long academic career, he has held four presidential appointments in Washington DC -- at the Pentagon, the United States Institute of Peace, and the United States Information Agency. He has also been a White House Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Scott is Editor of the Washington Monthly. A graduate from Stanford, Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and a triple major in Economics, Political Science and Environmental Science, he worked while at university as the California Coordinator of the Student Environmental Action Coalition, Media Coordinator of the Free Burma Coalition and Student Body Vice President. After graduating, he became a journalist in West Africa and Southeast Asia before being employed by the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington DC. He has published essays in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor  and many other US newspapers and magazines. This is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e01 October 2000\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eZed Books\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781856498104\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e224\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10.4\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369137340556,"sku":"9781856498104","price":44.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_b948d27d-cd0b-4ae7-b6b6-1454ca503567.jpg?v=1783878066","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781856498104","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}