Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal: 1930-1985 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

In most post-colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa, state power has been used to structure economic production in ways that have tended to produce economic stagnation rather than growth. Catherine Boone examines the ways in which the exercise of state power in Africa has inhibited economic growth, focusing on the case of Senegal.Catherine Boone is the author of 'Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal: 1930-1985 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)', published 1992 under ISBN 9780521410786 and ISBN 0521410789.