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While state involvement is blamed for stagnation and economic disarray in most regions of the Third World, it has become fashionable in the last ten years to give the East Asian state credit for playing a positive economic role. Amsden (1979) argued that Taiwan was not the model market economy portrayed by its American advisors nor the exemplar of dependence portrayed by its detractors, but a successful case of etatisme. Even observers with a neoclassical bent(e.g. Jones and Sakong, 1980) recognized the central role of the state in Korea's rapid industrialization. Increasingly, these states were labeled "developmental states" and held up as models to be emulated by other aspiring Third World nations.

The ruling Ethiopia People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) in its notable second reform appraisal held in the aftermath of the 2005 national election concluded that the utmost priority of the government should be realizing fastest and sustainable economic growth that fairly benefits its citizens' unless the very existence of the country wouldn't be guaranteed. Given the history of poverty reduction in developing countries, particularly in Africa, EPRDF realized that it is unthinkable to eradicate poverty from Ethiopia adopting neo-liberalism. Above all, the miraculous economic transformation of the South East Asian countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong has proved that there is another way to development, not just neo-liberalism. Accordingly, EPRDF, after examining South Korea's and Taiwan's history of economic development in particular where both countries have had a large section of rural population unlike Hong Kong and Singapore where both are urban, found 'developmental state' relevant to Ethiopia. However, unlike these countries which were originally under non-democratic regimes where their leaders fear the rural peasant and external aggression from their communist rivals, EPRDF has had a great support of rural and urban population with no imminent foreign threat(s), and decided to execute the ideology rather under the umbrella of democracy. Therefore, employing secondary sources, this desk study aims to analyze whether Ethiopia is a 'democratic developmental state?' And, concludes that given the practices of the government vis-a-vis the principles of democracy and developmental state, Ethiopia couldn't be taken as best model for democratic developmental state, rather emerging developmental state.

This essay revisits an earlier article, published in 2008, that argued that the United States had created a "hidden developmental state" that helped move technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace. In the intervening fifteen years, this apparatus has become more elaborate with ever more government initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels. Moreover, the major pieces of legislation passed in the first two years of the Biden administration have added considerable new funding. Nevertheless, this set of programs has not yet become a part of political debates outside of the federal government. It remains hidden to most of the electorate.

Die nach dem Erscheinen des "Berg-Reports" der Weltbank (1981) heftig unter Beschuß gekommene Rolle des Staates wird in sechs allgemeinen, z.T. theoretischen Artikeln und vier Fallstudien (Botsuana, Kenia, Sambia) diskutiert. Zwar wird anerkannt, daß das Eingreifen des Staates in die Wirtschaft höchst problematisch ist, doch gibt es, wie die Fallstudien zeigen, auch positive Ausnahmen. (DÜI-Spe)