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The business of development in post-colonial Africa / Véronique Dimier, Sarah Stockwell, editors.

Contributor(s): Dimier, Véronique [editor.] | Stockwell, S. E [editor.] | ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.].Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series: Publisher: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030511067; 9783030511050.Subject(s): Economic development -- Africa | Business enterprises, Foreign -- Africa | Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 338.96 Online resources: Click here to access online -- 3 users.
Contents:
Introduction : new directions in the history of business and development in post-colonial Africa / Véronique Dimier and Sarah Stockwell -- Business, the Commonwealth, and the rhetoric of development : the Federation of Commonweath Chambers of Commerce and Africa, 1945-1974 / Andrew Dilley -- Adapting to independence : the East African Association, post-colonial business networks and economic development / Poppy Cullen -- Belgian firms, development plans and the independence of the Belgian Congo / Charlotte Strick -- Oil companies as agents of post-colonial relations : France, Algeria, and Italy in the Sahara / Marta Musso -- A partner in progress? Shell-BP's development role in Nigeria duing the transition to independence / Christopher Minton -- The 'know-how of the world is mainly with private companies' : the Commonwealth Development Corporation and British business in postcolonial Africa / Sarah Stockwell -- Decolonizing finance, Africanizing banking / François Pacquement -- The European Development Fund, a dowry for French companies? / Véronique Dimier -- Displacing the French? Ivorian development and the question of economic decolonization, 1946-1975 / Abou Bamba -- European development cooperation and the private sector, from the 1970 to 2000 / Olivier Van den Bossche -- Afterword / Véronique Dimier and Sarah Stockwell.
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Introduction : new directions in the history of business and development in post-colonial Africa / Véronique Dimier and Sarah Stockwell -- Business, the Commonwealth, and the rhetoric of development : the Federation of Commonweath Chambers of Commerce and Africa, 1945-1974 / Andrew Dilley -- Adapting to independence : the East African Association, post-colonial business networks and economic development / Poppy Cullen -- Belgian firms, development plans and the independence of the Belgian Congo / Charlotte Strick -- Oil companies as agents of post-colonial relations : France, Algeria, and Italy in the Sahara / Marta Musso -- A partner in progress? Shell-BP's development role in Nigeria duing the transition to independence / Christopher Minton -- The 'know-how of the world is mainly with private companies' : the Commonwealth Development Corporation and British business in postcolonial Africa / Sarah Stockwell -- Decolonizing finance, Africanizing banking / François Pacquement -- The European Development Fund, a dowry for French companies? / Véronique Dimier -- Displacing the French? Ivorian development and the question of economic decolonization, 1946-1975 / Abou Bamba -- European development cooperation and the private sector, from the 1970 to 2000 / Olivier Van den Bossche -- Afterword / Véronique Dimier and Sarah Stockwell.

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