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Author Bamba, Abou B., 1972- author.

Title African miracle, African mirage : transnational politics and the paradox of modernization in Ivory Coast / Abou B. Bamba.

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series New African histories
New African histories series.
Contents Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Selected Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 The Postwar Years; 1-Becoming an Attractive Colony; 2-Triangulating Colonial Modernization; Part 2 The Decade of Development; 3-(Re)Framing Postcolonial Development; 4- Energizing the Economic Miracle; 5- Tapping the Riches of a ""Backward"" Region; Part 3 The Fate of Modernization; 6- Investing in Modernization's Last Frontier; 7- Crushing Dreams of Modernity; Conclusion: A Return to the Saga of an African Miracle; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for modernization and the ways that Western aid and multinational corporations would develop the continent.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-290) and index.
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Subject Economic development -- Côte d'Ivoire.
Economic development.
Côte d'Ivoire.
Côte d'Ivoire -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
International economic relations.
United States.
Côte d'Ivoire -- Foreign economic relations -- France.
France.
United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Côte d'Ivoire.
France -- Foreign economic relations -- Côte d'Ivoire.
Côte d'Ivoire -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Côte d'Ivoire -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780821422380 0821422383 (DLC) 2016025560 (OCoLC)950445945
ISBN 9780821445822 (electronic book)
0821445820 (electronic book)
9780821422380 (hc ; alkaline paper)
0821422383 (hc ; alkaline paper)
9780821422397 (pb ; alkaline paper)
0821422391 (pb ; alkaline paper)

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