Africa, The Next Economic Tiger: Lessons From Asia

The Asian economic tigers are the newly industrialized countries noted for maintaining exceptionally high growth rates and rapid industrialization between the 1960s and 1990s. One remarkable attribute of most of the Asian tigers is that they were poor during the 1960s when most parts of Africa were experiencing some level of economic surge. Both Asia and Africa got out of colonialism in despair state, but how is it that Asia managed to pull ahead and Africa left behind. This book is for people who wish to do business in Africa and understand how Africa can transform itself to be the next economic tiger.