Titlebook: Rent-Seeking, Institutions and Reforms in Africa; Theory and Empirical Pius V. Fischer Book 2006 Springer-Verlag US 2006 Africa.Developing

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Introduction half of the SSA countries the year with the highest per capita GDP fell within the first ten years of that period.. The report concludes that for the 1990s (p. 37) ‘economies have not grown, half of Africans live in extreme poverty and one third in hunger, and about one- sixth of children die before age five—the same as a decade ago’.

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What Is Rent-Seeking?lack of clarity often becomes a source of confusion or unjustified critique. Having this caveat in mind, this chapter devotes sufficient space to defining and describing rents and rent-seeking activities.

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Addressing Fundamentals: Explaining the Motivation for and Success of Rent-Seeking Behaviour and Polll look at rent-seeking from a broader individual, social, interest group and political perspective. It also explains the specific shape or value of the parameters and model structures presented in Chapter 3, and will provide an answer to the crucial question as to why society allows rent-seeking despite its detrimental effects.

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From Socialist Ideology to Rent-Seeking Realityation to the analysis of rent-seeking and economic reforms in Chapters 7 and 8. As will be argued, rent-seekers have greatly (even predominantly) contributed to the poor reform records in Tanzania in the 1980s and 1990s.