Debt and the One-Party State in Zambia
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 297-313
ISSN: 1469-7777
In the debate over relief for Africa and the Third World, the situation of dictatorial, corrupt, and mismanaged régimes is often subsumed with the rest. It is rather uncritically accepted that indebtedness chiefly results from the impact of international factors, such as falling commodity prices, International Monetary Fund conditionalities, and rising metropolitan interest rates. The independent national state, whatever its policies and form, is seen as simply the passive victim of such forces, and little or no differentiation is made between the régime and the groups and classes of the domestic society.