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The fastest path to African prosperity
le is based on a white paper published by the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. The scale of the challenge in fostering a prosperous African continent is daunting.
Seretse Khama’s combination of respect for indigenous institutions while integrating them into the best of the English common law tradition is a paradigm relevant to the broader discussion on options for Africa’s prosperity going forward. So many pieces need to be coordinated to have a significant impact—political coalitions, leadership, ethnic alliances, talented and honest bureaucrats and officials, a unified vision over many years—that this type of reform is rarely conducted successfully. When most African nations have hundreds of laws that result in their business environments being ranked among the worst in the world, it is a very long, hard, sustained legislative and administrative slog to move to the top.
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