Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria

by Peter Lewis and Peter M. Lewis

Book Overview

"Growing Apart is an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have long presented one of the most natural opportunities for comparative study. Peter Lewis, one of America's best scholars of Nigeria, has produced the definitive treatment of their divergent development paths. In the process, he tells us much theoretically about when, why, and how political institutions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472069802
• ISBN13: 9780472069804
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"