The Future of Engaging with the Rest of the World (Huffington Post)
Huffington Post columnist John Sullivan discusses Steve Radelet's book Emerging Africa in relation to the recent release of QDDR.
This has been the key to success in 17 countries in Africa that have reduced poverty and created opportunities for citizens to partake in governance and economic development. The experience of these countries is captured in the new book titled Emerging Africa by Steven Radelet, currently a Senior Advisor on development to Secretary Clinton and formerly a Senior Fellow at Center for Global Development.
In tracking the development of these countries, Radelet shows their transformation from bankrupt, unaccountable dictatorships mired in permanent economic crises and poverty to democracies with peace, economic prosperity, tangible poverty reduction, and improved governance.
These African success stories, Radelet argues, are mainly due to the new generation of business, political, and civil society leaders, democratization of governments, sound economic reforms, and the spread of new technologies.