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The contrast in rates of economic growth between post-colonial African states in general and a number of their equivalents in Asia is dramatic. Between 1980 and 1989 economies grew by 10.4 per cent per year in East and Southeast Asia with GNP per capita increasing annually by 6.3 per cent. Over the same period the sub-Sahara African states recorded –1.2 per cent as an average (World Bank, 1990b; 1991).
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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Second Global Entrepreneurship Conference, Imperial College, London, 1992. The support of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, Boston University, and of its Director, Peter L. Berger, is gratefully acknowledged.
For a discussion of the Tanzanian case see Stein (1985).
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Redding, S.G., Tam, S. (1995). Colonialism and Entrepreneurship in Africa and Hong Kong: A Comparative Perspective . In: Stein, H. (eds) Asian Industrialization and Africa. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24473-7_6
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