Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies

Robert Bates

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Abstract: To be underdeveloped is to be poor. It is also to be agrarian. Markets and States in Tropical Africa represents an effort to comprehend the economics of development by analyzing the politics of agrarian societies.

Keywords: Africa; Development; Politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F00 O1 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981, Revised 2005
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