Cocoa beans in Cameroon. Resource countries are particularly susceptible to bad policies, says Fosu (Photo: Broker/Newscom)
Underdevelopment has often been blamed on bad policies adopted by national governments. Augustin Fosu has identified four such policies which he believes have been the cause of inefficiency, overregulation and misallocation of resources.
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