Developmental states
In: Elements in the politics of development
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In: Elements in the politics of development
World Affairs Online
In: Third world quarterly, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 354-370
ISSN: 0143-6597
World Affairs Online
In: The African communist, Heft 186, S. 40-54
ISSN: 0001-9976
In: IDS bulletin, Band 37, Heft 4
ISSN: 0265-5012, 0308-5872
In: Forum for development studies, Band 39, Heft 3, S. 407-434
ISSN: 0803-9410
In: Third world quarterly, Band 29, Heft 6, S. 1153-1174
ISSN: 0143-6597
World Affairs Online
In: Africa insight: development through knowledge, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 1
ISSN: 0256-2804
The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years. However, this was not accompanied by structural transformation: poverty, food insecurity, unemployment and inequality persist. Structural transformation has not been - and indeed cannot be - delivered by market forces and neo-liberal economic policies; it requires a state committed to development, and to achieving it in a democratic way. To what extent do the countries of Southern Africa exhibit the characteristics of such a 'developmental state'? What steps, if any, do they need to take in order to become one? The book answers the questions with respect to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Malawi. Godfrey Kanyenze and his colleagues have assembled a distinguished team of writers to take the temperature of the regional political economy, and chart a path for its future development
World Affairs Online
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 113, Heft 451, S. 279-299
ISSN: 0001-9909
World Affairs Online
In: Strategic review for Southern Africa: Strategiese oorsig vir Suider-Afrika, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 96
ISSN: 1013-1108
In: International journal of political economy: a journal of translations, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 5-26
ISSN: 0891-1916
In: Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa
"This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (1908-1959) as a developmental state. The book demonstrates that despite the colonial system's economic exploitation and extraction, brutality, excessive taxation, and inequities, the Belgian Congo achieved successes in developing the economy in a short period of time. The Belgian Congo was able to achieve this by investing its higher rates of fiscal revenue in political stability, physical infrastructure, education, and healthcare. By reconsidering the Belgian colonial state as a developmental state, this book encourages scholars to adopt a more nuanced analysis of African history. Considering state capacity and state autonomy as key features of a developmental state, the book demonstrates that colonial state managers in the Belgian Congo were able to supply these public goods that sustained economic growth for decades. Whilst in no means glorifying colonialism or the atrocities that were conducted during the Belgian occupation, the book nonetheless outlines how different forms of capitalism were deployed to further economic development in the country. In contrast, predatory state managers of the Congo Free State (1885-1908) and post-colonial kleptocrats (1960-2018) have squandered Congo's natural resources with disastrous economic and social consequences. Contrasting the Belgian Congo with colonies of settlement and other colonies of extraction, this book encourages researchers and students to reconsider the dominant narratives within colonial history, development, and African Studies"--