Business and the state in Africa : economic policy-making in the neo-liberal era / Antoinette Handley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handley, Antoinette, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial policy--Africa.

Industrial policy.

Business enterprises--Africa.

Business enterprises.

Africa--Economic policy.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Business & the State in Africa

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: the African business class and development

Part I. Institutionalizing Constructive Contestation

Ethnicity, race, and the development of the South African business class, 1870-1989

The neo-liberal era in South Africa: negotiating capitalist development

Business and government in Mauritius: public hostility, private pragmatism

Part II. Business and the Neo-patrimonial State

The emergence of neo-patrimonial business in Ghana, 1850-1989

State-dominant reform: Ghana in the 1990s and 2000s

Business and government in Zambia: too close for comfort

Conclusion: comparatively speaking: the business of economic policymaking.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-285) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18668-4

1-281-75118-9

9786611751180

0-511-41451-X

0-511-49183-2

0-511-41519-2

0-511-41290-8

0-511-41197-9

0-511-41382-3

OCLC:

437219428