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Intro -- Dedication -- Prologue: November 9, 1989 -- Part One: The Surge -- 1. A Great Transformation -- 2. Breakthrough from the Bottom -- 3. The Wealth of a New Generation -- 4. More Children Now Live-and Live Better -- 5. Dictators Out, Democracy In -- Part Two: The Catalysts -- 6. Good-bye Cold War, So Long Communism -- 7. Hello Globalization, Welcome New Technologies -- 8. Leadership, Civil Society, Action-and a Bit of Luck -- 9. Foreign Aid: Blessing or Curse? -- Part Three: The Future -- 10. Future 1-Progress Expanded: A New Age of Global Prosperity -- 11. Future 2-Progress Diminished: Stuck Muddling Through -- 12. Future 3-Progress Derailed: Climate and Conflict Halt Development -- 13. Getting to Good -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- About Steven Radelet -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

Emerging Africa describes the too-often-overlooked positive changes that have taken place in much of Africa since the mid-1990s. In 17 countries, five fundamental and sustained breakthroughs are making old assumptions increasingly untenable: • The rise of democracy brought on by the end of the Cold War and apartheid • Stronger economic management • The end of the debt crisis and a more constructive relationship with the international community • The introduction of new technologies, especially mobile phones and the Internet • The emergence of a new generation of leaders. With these significant changes, the countries of emerging Africa seem poised to lead the continent out of the conflict, stagnation, and dictatorships of the past. The countries discussed in the book are Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Mali Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia

For more than two decades now, the majority of the world's poorest countries have been making some of the fastest and biggest development gains in history. The momentous progress achieved since the early 1990s is unprecedented. One-billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, the child death rate has been cut in half, life expectancy has increased significantly, millions more girls are enrolled in school, deaths in civil wars have dropped by three-quarters, average incomes have almost doubled, food production has increased by half, and democracy has spread like never before in the world's poorest countries, notwithstanding with many setbacks, obstacles, and imperfections along the way. Some of these gains—especially the declines in poverty and child mortality—rank among the greatest achievements in human history. Yet few people are aware that this progress is even happening.

Since the mid-1990s, seventeen emerging countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have been leaving behind the conflicts, stagnation, and dictatorships of the past and achieving steady economic growth, deepening democracy, stronger leadership, and falling poverty—and six additional African countries are showing signs that they may be on the same path. The paths of the countries that comprise "emerging Africa" are characterized by five commonalities democratic and accountable governments; the implementation of more sensible economic policies; the end of the decades-long debt crisis, and with it major changes in Africa's relationship with the international community; the spread of new technologies that promote political accountability and create fresh business opportunities; and the emergence of a new generation of policy makers, activists, and business leaders.