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  • Better Choices

    Ensuring South Africa's Future

    Edited by Greg Mills, Mcebisi Jonas, Haroon Bhorat, Ray Hartley ...
    ‘A must-read, accessible and skilful account of South Africa’s socio-economic challenges, policy and governance choices.’ - THEMBA MASEKOAll the numbers on South Africa’s crisis dashboard are blinking red. The economy is failing to grow and more and more young people find themselves on the outside looking in as education falters and jobs disappear. Energy and transport are in crisis. Governance is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Why Africa is Poor

    And what Africans can do about it

    by Greg Mills ...
    Economic growth does not demand a secret formula. Good development examples now abound in East Asia and further afield in others parts of Asia, and in Central America. But why then has Africa failed to realise its potential in half a century of independence? Why Africa is Poor demonstrates that Africa is poor not because the world has denied the continent the market and financial means to compete: ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Rich State, Poor State

    Why Some Countries Fail and Others Succeed

    by Greg Mills ...
    Why do some states thrive, grow their economies and uplift their people, while others, facing similar challenges, slide into low growth, social dysfunction and failure?After decades of work on the ground in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, bestselling author Greg Mills seeks to provide answers in Rich State, Poor State.On each continent he traverses, Mills interrogates the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Democracy Works

    Re-Wiring Politics to Africa's Advantage

    by Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Tendai Biti, Jeffrey Herbst ...
    Democracy Works asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analyzing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a 'democratic playbook' robust enough to withstand threats to free and fair elections. However, substantive democracy demands more than just regular polls. It is fundamentally about the inner workings of institutions, the rule ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Essence of Success

    Insights into Leadership and Strategy from Sport, Business, Politics and War

    by Emaneule Pirro, Greg Mills ...
    How have some people broken the shackles of their circumstances to achieve extraordinary things? Can success be taught, or does it depend on talent alone? What role does luck play? Through more than 250 interviews with leaders in sport, business, war and politics, Greg Mills and Emanuele Pirro distil the ingredients of success and, conversely, the causes of failure. From rugby’s triumphant ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    Scenarios for South Africa's Uncertain Future

    by Ray Hartley, Greg Mills, Mills Soko ...
    South Africa is facing an extraordinary ‘polycrisis’. The dimensions of this crisis include an energy collapse; a failing rail network; weak education outcomes; an interrupted water supply; and the effects of decades of endemic corruption that have brought much of government to a halt.But the country also has incredible assets: a wealth of sought-after minerals; an enviable Constitution that ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • In the Name of the People

    How Populism is Rewiring the World

    by Tendai Biti, Nic Cheeseman, Christopher Clapham, Ray Hartley, Greg Mills, Juan Carlos Pinzón, Lyal White ...
    Shaken by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and staggering after the COVID-19 pandemic, the global political order is entering a new era of volatile uncertainty that may roll back the gains of the last century.Open democracies, where opponents respect one another even as they contest for power, are under threat from the rising tide of populism. In this stark new world, political opponents are ... Read more

    $8.39 USD

  • The Ledger

    Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan

    by David Kilcullen, Greg Mills ...
    'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson, of America's role backing the anti-Soviet mujahideen. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' With no support for Afghanistan after that war, the vacuum was filled by the Taliban and bin Laden. The Ledger assesses the West's similarly failed approach to Afghanistan after 9/11-in military, diplomatic, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Africa’s Third Liberation

    by Greg Mills ...
    Africa has experienced two liberations: the first from colonial and racist regimes, and the second from the autocrats who often followed foreign rule. African countries now have the potential to undertake a third liberation - from political economies characterised by graft, crony capitalism, rents-seeking, elitism and social inequality. This third liberation will open up the economic space in ... Read more

    $7.89 USD

  • The Asian Aspiration

    Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia -- and What It Should Avoid

    by Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Emily van der Merwe, Hailemariam Desalegn ...
    In 1960, the GDP per capita of Southeast Asian countries was nearly half of that of Africa. By 1986 the gap had closed and today the trend is reversed, with more than half of the world's poorest now living in sub Saharan Africa. Why has Asia developed while Africa lagged? The Asian Aspiration chronicles the stories of explosive growth and changing fortunes: the leaders, events and policy choices ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • War and Peace in Southern Africa

    Crime, Drugs, Armies, Trade

    Edited by Robert I. Rotberg, Greg Mills ...
    A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publicationThe new South Africa, as well as the surrounding southern region, is finally free of apartheid and colonial rule. Civil wars have ended; democracy is everywhere. Economically, South Africa and the region are beginning to grow more rapidly than ever before. But serious impediments to sustainable growth and effective participatory ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Why States Recover

    Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

    by Greg Mills ...
    State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and international aid. Malawi, on the other hand, is at the other end of the scale. During President Bingu's second term in office, the country's ... Read more

    $19.99 USD