Why Cameroon is Poor and Corrupt

Dibussi Tande reviews The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford he
"...has successfully described in the simplest (and most entertaining) terms, the nature of the Cameroonian political system. Political scientists such as Jean Francois Bayart and Michael Bratton have described it as a neopatrimonial and prebendal system, i.e., one that is controlled by a rapacious and unaccountable ruling class that under-develops the country by continuously “eating the state”, and promoting widespread corruption in order to survive..."