‘Recycling oil money': procurement politics and (un)productive entrepreneurship in South Sudan

Twijnstra, Rens

doi:10.1080/17531055.2015.1105442

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“…Second, we consider a distinctive and novel set of outcomes over an extended period of time, namely the size and importance of the private business networks associated with individual politicians, including measures of network centrality that capture their influence within the network of business-owners. In so doing, we provide support to existing work, largely of a qualitative nature in Mozambique and beyond (e.g., Hanlon, 2002;Twijnstra, 2015;Macuane et al, 2018), which contends politicians frequently act as unproductive rentier-brokers, captured by the metaphor of the 'big man' straddling private and public interests (e.g., Szeftel, 2000). Third, we demonstrate how publicly-available information from (digital) business registries, which have the advantage of near-universal coverage of the formal sector, can be deployed to investigate substantive political economy questions.…”

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Doing business while holding public office: Evidence from Mozambique’s firm registry

2021

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We link the universe of owners of businesses formally registered in Mozambique since Independence to a new database of politically exposed persons. Recreating the dynamic network of ties between firm owners, we estimate the value of party political and executive mandates to their personal business interests. We find holders of political office attain significantly faster growth not only in the number of companies they own but also in their structural power within the business-owner network, as measured by their 'godfather centrality'. Such growth is concentrated in joint-stock firms active in trade and finance sectors and is even larger once we aggregate the analysis to the family-name level. This is consistent with politicians accumulating private sector wealth by acting as rentier-brokers.

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Doing business while holding public office: Evidence from Mozambique’s firm registry

2021

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“…Outside partners must state clearly to the commercial actors within the jurisdiction which they really expect them to engage with South Sudanese law through its amendments, by including all the payments in a single designed oil account and ensuring that the contracts express required compliance through all parties within the country's laws. This definitely transparent as far as the oil production is influenced (Twijnstra, 2015).…”

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What Does the Future Hold for Oil in South Sudan Range from 2022/2050?

Akuendit

2022

East Afr. j. bus. econ.

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The aim of this paper is to find out the what the future holds in terms of oil in South Sudan. It looks at the economy that aggregated comprising of two major sectors of both oil and aid dominating the entire economy. Oil is a major player within the South Sudan Economy though major South Sudan residents nevertheless rely on other parts of the Economy for example in agricultural sector, livestock, commerce, and others make their income from employment income. Oil as well as aid is important since they are major sources for foreign exchanges and tax revenue. A variety of service industries also exists like the banking industry, insurance industry and other construction industries. The future of South Sudan is hence anchored on oil and this paper tends to explore on what the future holds for South Sudan in the Oil industry.

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“…In the case of Uganda, for instance, Hickey & Izama (2016) have argued that a dominant developmental coalition, led by President Yoweri Museveni and the ruling National Resistance Movement, have accounted for the development of bureaucratic capacity and political leverage that have set the country's oil industry towards a developmental path. The central premise of this argument has been replicated to explain the successes and failures of oil-led governance in countries ranging from South Sudan, in relation to procurement reforms (Twijnstra, 2015), to the micropolitics of oil in Ghana (Mohan et al, 2017).…”

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Between elite reflexes and deliberative impulses: oil and the landscape of contentious politics in Ghana

Oppong

2020

Oxford Development Studies

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From the vested interests that have held back the promulgation of Nigeria's Petroleum Industry for more than seventeen years, to the sporadic stoppages that often frustrate attempts by the Kenyan government and Tullow Oil to truck oil from the Turkana region, attempts by national political elites to construct grand schemes from petroleum resources often get entangled in a complex of contentious politics. Nonetheless, the basic instinct of the predominant literature on oil governance has been to confine these contentious processes to the 'black box' of elite consolidation. Based on an in-depth account of the distinctive political economy drivers of reform in Ghana's oil industry and the complement of Abdul Raufu Mustapha's interpretation of the 'multiple publics' governing Africa's public sphere, this article offers a pushback against this dominant disposition. The article underscores the need to frame the analytic problem of reform in the oil industry as part of a more fundamental question; should the politics of oil in developing countries be viewed through the narrow prism of the rational calculations of dominant elites, instead of the broader impulses of democratic pluralism and contentious politics at multiple scales? The main argument advanced by the author maintains that the constitutive processes that drive institutional and policy reform in the oil industry reflect the impulses of contentious politics, instead of elite reflexes.

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‘Recycling oil money': procurement politics and (un)productive entrepreneurship in South Sudan

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

Doing business while holding public office: Evidence from Mozambique’s firm registry

Doing business while holding public office: Evidence from Mozambique’s firm registry

What Does the Future Hold for Oil in South Sudan Range from 2022/2050?

Between elite reflexes and deliberative impulses: oil and the landscape of contentious politics in Ghana

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