Joe Studwell’s 2013 book How Asia Works was a groundbreaking analysis of the rise of East Asia’s ‘tiger economies’, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. In it, the British journalist and author showed how those countries had achieved success by pursuing state-led industrial and agricultural policies while limiting capital flows — a policy mix that ran counter to prevailing economic orthodoxy. In his new book, How Africa Works, Studwell takes a similar look at the world’s poorest region, an
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