AFRICAN ISLAND DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES: A CLUSTER OF MODELS*

Jerome L. McElroy

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Abstract. Do small islands surrounding Africa represent a dis-tinct development experience? This study constructs a socio-economic profile of eleven Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands and compares it to 48 African continental countries and 40 small rest-of-world islands. Results show African islands out-perform the mainland because they have restructured toward tourism and export manufacturing but exhibit lower socio-economic develop-ment than rest-of-world islands. When the African island profile is broken down, the paper argues, in the context of the island literature, that a cluster of models are represented: four MIRAB states, three tourism dependencies, one TOURAB case, and three Balanced Diversification economies.

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