Economic Reform and Democracy: Crisis and Opportunity in Africa

Issue Date April 1995
Volume 6
Issue 2
Page Numbers 128-41
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About the Author

Nicolas van de Walle is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University and nonresident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. His most recent book is Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries (2005).

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