tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post7784895294066524220..comments2023-10-30T05:38:45.028-07:00Comments on The Infusion: Ivory Coast updateLKThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791517233920008067noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5044820951794078204.post-88907401206225764262010-12-08T16:52:14.021-08:002010-12-08T16:52:14.021-08:00It is a great pity. There have been worse tragedi...It is a great pity. There have been worse tragedies in Africa, but the fall of the Ivory Coast has been poignant because it was, thirty years ago, the odd success story in tropical Africa. It was the most affluent country therein and it had made itself so not by exploiting mineral wealth but by diversification and productivity improvement in agriculture. <br /><br />Most of the rest of Africa has also made salutary amendments to their political systems in the intervening years, with electoral and deliberative institutions and multi-party politics replacing autocracies and monopolistic patronage networks (which often degenerated into regimes of hideous violence - Macias, Amin, &c.). The Ivory Coast has been lagging in this as well.Art Decohttp://wwrtc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com