Business associations and growth coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bräutigam, Deborah; Rakner, Lise; Taylor, Scott D.

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“…Value extraction did not require wider economic predictability, and business elites seldom developed a generalised voice or an autonomous identity separate from political elites (Bräutigam et al, 2002;Handley, 2008). …”

Section: State Power and Economic Development: Motivation Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Political Motivations That Shape Rwanda's Emergent Developmental State

Mann

Berry²

2015

New Political Economy

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Twenty years after its horrific genocide, Rwanda has become a model for economic development. At the same time, its government has been criticized for its authoritarian tactics and use of violence. Missing from the often-polarized debate are the connections between these two perspectives. Synthesizing existing literature on Rwanda in light of a combined year of fieldwork, we argue that the GoR is using the developmental infrastructure to deepen state power and expand political control. We first identify the historical pressures that have motivated the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) to re-imagine the political landscape. Sectarian unrest, political rivalry, wider regional insecurity, and aid withdrawal have all pressured the RPF to identify growth as strategic. However, the country's political transformation extends beyond a prioritisation of growth and encompasses the reordering of the social and physical layout of the territory, the articulation of new ideologies and mindsets, and the provision of social services and surveillance infrastructure. Growth and social control go hand in hand. As such, the paper's main contribution is to bring together the two sides of the Rwandan debate and place the country in a broader sociological literature about the parallel development of capitalist relations and transformations in state power. Acknowledgements:The authors are grateful to

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Section: State Power and Economic Development: Motivation Mattersmentioning

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Understanding the Political Motivations That Shape Rwanda's Emergent Developmental State

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Berry²

2015

New Political Economy

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“…Weak capacity and monopoly power bear on the question raised by Bräutigam et al (2002) of why business-government partnerships to foster growth are so rare in SSA. Echoing the conclusion of Himbara (1994) for Kenya, they find that the capabilities of the state matter a great deal for the ability to implement a pro-growth strategy.…”

Section: The Business Climatementioning

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Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa's Missing Middle

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Typescript prepared by Anna-Mari Vesterinen at UNU-WIDER. Terms of use: Documents inUNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions to the research programme from the governments of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.The World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) was established by the United Nations University (UNU) as its first research and training centre and started work in Helsinki, Finland in 1985. The Institute undertakes applied research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the developing and transitional economies, provides a forum for the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth, and promotes capacity strengthening and training in the field of economic and social policy-making. Work is carried out by staff researchers and visiting scholars in Helsinki and through networks of collabourating scholars and institutions around the world.UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, 00160 Helsinki, Finland, wider.unu.eduThe views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s). Publication does not imply endorsement by the Institute or the United Nations University, nor by the programme/project sponsors, of any of the views expressed. Abstract:We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor business climate, which constraints the allocation of production factors between sectors and firms. Second, the complex political economy of business-government relations in Africa's small economies, and third, the distribution of firm capabilities. The roots for these factors lie in subSaharan Africa's geography and its distinctive history, including the legacy of its colonial period on state formation and market structure.

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“…An earlier literature by scholars such as Deborah Bräutigam has also highlighted the role of 'growth coalitions', which are coalitions of business and political elites that are underpinned by synergistic relations and which mobilize institutions and resources for economic growth, in explaining the growth successes of countries such as Mauritius in the African context (Bräutigam et al 2002).…”

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“…It is more likely that the character of the political settlement underpinning economic growth changes from a pure clientelist political settlement to hybrid political settlements where formal institutions (e.g. the setting up of joint economic councils between the business sector and the government) and formal organizations (both an effective economic bureaucracy and well-organized and representative business associations) are increasingly important in resolving coordination failures (Bräutigam et al 2002). Finally, Khan downplays the role of high-quality public goods provision (including a literate and skilled workforce and no infrastructure constraints) that have been seen as important determinants of economic growth in the empirical growth literature, and it is difficult to see how public goods such as education, health, and infrastructure can be provided through patron-client networks which by their very nature are exclusionary.…”

Section: The Political Foundations Of Growth Accelerations: Mushtaq Khanmentioning

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The Politics of Inclusive Development

Hickey

Sen²,

Bukenya³

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes.You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ www.econstor.eu The Politics of Inclusive DevelopmentIt is now widely accepted that politics plays a signifi cant role in shaping the possibilities for inclusive development. However, the specifi c ways in which this happens across different types and forms of development, and in different contexts, remains poorly understood. This collection provides a stateof-the-art review regarding what is currently known about the politics of inclusive development. Leading academics offer systematic reviews of how politics shapes development across multiple dimensions, including through growth, natural resource governance, poverty reduction, service delivery, social protection, justice systems, the empowerment of marginalised groups, and the role of both traditional and non-traditional donors. The volume not only provides a comprehensive update but also a ground-breaking range of new directions for thinking and acting around these issues. The book's originality thus derives not only from the wide scope of its case-study material, but also from the new conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about the politics of inclusive development, and the innovative and practical suggestions for donors, policy makers, and practitioners that fl ow from this. 1 The Politics of Inclusive DevelopmentInterrogating the Evidence Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. First Edition published 2015 First published in paperback 2016This book is dedicated both to the future of our latest arrivals, Noah Jem, Shawn Michael, and Matthew Francis, and ForewordThe Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre strives to create knowledge that contributes to making states more effective and committed to achieving social justice. This is a grand goal but our partners...

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Business associations and growth coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 85 publications

References 35 publications

Understanding the Political Motivations That Shape Rwanda's Emergent Developmental State

Understanding the Political Motivations That Shape Rwanda's Emergent Developmental State

Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa's Missing Middle

The Politics of Inclusive Development

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