Antoinette Handley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include policy-making and economic reform in developing countries, business-government relations, and HIV/AIDS and the political economies of Africa. She has published articles in the Journal of Modern African Studies, Current History and the Canadian Journal of African Studies.
Introduction: the African business class and development; Part I.
Institutionalizing Constructive Contestation: 1. Ethnicity, race, and the
development of the South African business class, 1870-1989; 2. The
neo-liberal era in South Africa: negotiating capitalist development; 3.
Business and government in Mauritius: public hostility, private pragmatism;
Part II. Business and the Neo-patrimonial State: 4. The emergence of
neo-patrimonial business in Ghana, 1850-1989; 5. State-dominant reform:
Ghana in the 1990s and 2000s; 6. Business and government in Zambia: too
close for comfort; Conclusion: comparatively speaking: the business of
economic policymaking.
