Different African government successes for different African economies. One of these was Zaire under Mobutu Sese Seko. There were big copper mines in Zaire, but most of the money that came out of selling the copper went to Mobutu. He spent big amounts of money building monuments and statues of himself. He made all these thing that people could and couldn’t do like wear western clothing. He drove out Asian merchants and Belgian technicians and businessmen. In the 1980s the copper prices fell. Because of this Mobutu had to call back the Asian merchants and Belgian technicians and businessmen, and cause high price inflation. 

Another African government was Kenya under Jomo Kenyatta. His government had a one party rule. He didn’t tax people too much and there were no mineral deposits. The land was not very substantial for farming, but he still did better then Mobutu did.  He even encouraged tourism! These two were extremely different with their government. 

Arguments advanced by the Public Choice school of economics. According to Wikipedia, “Public choice refers to the behavior and process of what public goods are provided, how they are provided and distributed, and the corresponding matching rules are established. Public choice theory expects to study and influence people’s public choice processes to maximize their social utility.” According to Econlib, “Public choice economists make the same assumption—that although people acting in the political marketplace have some concern for others, their main motive, whether they are voters, politicians, lobbyists, or bureaucrats, is self-interest.“

Front-loading and political engineering. According to the dictionary, front-loading means to “distribute or allocate (costs, effort, etc.) unevenly, with the greater proportion at the beginning of the enterprise or process.” Political engineering is when a military spreads a project around to different infirmities to make sure that the job gets done.