Antoinette Handley

Business and the State in Africa (eBook, PDF)

Economic Policy-Making in the Neo-Liberal Era

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Produktbeschreibung

The dominant developmental approach in Africa over the last twenty years has been to advocate the role of markets and the private sector in restoring economic growth. Recent thinking has also stressed the need for 'ownership' of economic reform by the populations of developing countries, particularly the business community. This book studies the business-government interactions of four African countries: Ghana, Zambia, South Africa and Mauritius. Employing a historical institutionalist approach, Antoinette Handley considers why and how business in South Africa and Mauritius has developed the capacity to constructively contest the making of economic policy while, conversely, business in Zambia and Ghana has struggled to develop any autonomous political capacity. Paying close attention to the mutually constitutive interactions between business and the state, Handley considers the role of timing and how ethnicised and racialised identities can affect these interactions in profound and consequential ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511410574
• Artikelnr.: 38201031

Autorenporträt

Antoinette Handley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include policy-making and economic reform in developing countries, business-government relations, and HIV/AIDS and the political economies of Africa. She has published articles in the Journal of Modern African Studies, Current History and the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the African business class and development; Part I.
Institutionalizing Constructive Contestation: 1. Ethnicity, race, and the
development of the South African business class, 1870-1989; 2. The
neo-liberal era in South Africa: negotiating capitalist development; 3.
Business and government in Mauritius: public hostility, private pragmatism;
Part II. Business and the Neo-patrimonial State: 4. The emergence of
neo-patrimonial business in Ghana, 1850-1989; 5. State-dominant reform:
Ghana in the 1990s and 2000s; 6. Business and government in Zambia: too
close for comfort; Conclusion: comparatively speaking: the business of
economic policymaking.