Jose-Maria Munoz (University of Edinburgh)

Doing Business in Cameroon

An Anatomy of Economic Governance

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on four distinct sectors (cattle trade, transport, public contracts and NGO work), Munoz combines an ethnographic study of business practices with a lucid analysis of policies and legal rules to provide an in-depth look at how businesses and state bureaucracies cope with unpredictability in times of crisis and reform.

Produktdetails

• The International African Library
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 241
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781108452823
• ISBN-10: 1108452825
• Artikelnr.: 60038919

Autorenporträt

José-María Muñoz is a lecturer of African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh. Muñoz trained as a lawyer in Spain, his home country, before pursuing degrees in Social Anthropology at University College London and Northwestern University, Illinois. He held a postdoctoral fellowship with Emory University's Program in Development Studies before relocating to the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of figures
Acronyms
Introduction: doing business in Cameroon
1. Making a living in Ngaoundéré
2. The ordering of public things
3. 'Cattle saves the day'
4. On and off the road
5. Under 'the NGO label'
Conclusion: letting pass, letting go
Bibliography
Index.