The ‘state’ of postcolonial development: China–Rwanda ‘dependency’ in perspective

Lisimba, Alpha Furbell; Parashar, Swati

doi:10.1080/01436597.2020.1815527

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“…The findings align with Alpha and Swati's (2020) emphasis on the pivotal role of diplomacy in influencing investment climates. Alpha and Swati highlight how diplomatic efforts, including leadership diplomacy, can positively impact the environment for multinational corporations and consequently influence their site selection for investments.…”

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“…Many different actors are responsible for carrying out the procedures that ultimately provide the desired investment returns. Inefficiencies and wasteful spending occur when these processes are not integrated and coordinated (Alpha & Swati, 2020). With this context in mind, the research set out to assess the contribution made by the MINAFFET to the country's efforts to attract FDI.…”

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Exploring Rwanda’s Diplomatic Efforts to Attract Foreign Investors: The Case Study of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

2023

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Diplomacy Investment has been the superlative source of extrinsic finance for developing country. Economic diplomacy is concerned with conducting international business. The general objective of this study was to assess the diplomacy and investment through Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Specifically, the study focused on to examine the effect of the public diplomacy on investment, to establish the effect of economic diplomacy on investment, and to determine the effect of science diplomacy on investment through Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the design of the descriptive study. Information gathered by use of questionnaire. Eighty-one respondents working for the Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry were polled. Since the research used a census-based approach, the whole population served as the sample. Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 26.0 was used to conduct descriptive statistics on the given data. We also utilized inferential statistics to demonstrate the interdependence of the variables. The outcomes are visually represented by tables with frequency distributions, means, and standard deviations. According to research commissioned by the MINAFFET, there is a statistically significant relationship between public diplomacy (p=0.000 less than 0.05), economic diplomacy (p=0.00 less than 0.05), and science diplomacy (p=0.001 less than 0.05) and investment. An R value of.921, a R square value of 0.848, and an adjusted R square value of 0.842 were discovered. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation channels 84.80% of its investment via science diplomacy, economic diplomacy, and public diplomacy. The significant level from the analysis of variance was 0.000 which is less than 0.05, and the corresponding result was F=128.449. This means that the Science Diplomacy, Economic Diplomacy, and Public Diplomacy programs run by the MINAFFET have an influence on investment, as hypothesized by the study's author. The MINAFFET should prioritize and

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2023

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“…For Rwanda, trade expansion through regional market integration bears several advantages (World Bank Group, 2020a, p. 31). The land-locked least developed country aspires to imitate the development paths of the Asian tigers (Lisimba & Parashar, 2020). In fact, the digital sector is the central component of the national development strategy which aims to achieve higher middle-income status by 2035 (World Bank Group, 2021, p. 8).…”

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Drivers and Barriers of Digital Market Integration in East Africa: A Case Study of Rwanda and Tanzania

Arnold

2022

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Digital development has become a firm pillar in the national development strategies of many countries in the Global South. Although the geopolitical competition over ICTs leveraged their diplomatic and economic relevance in the international sphere, developing countries remain in a subordinate position in global power relations. However, while they could collectively improve their standing by uniting behind an integrated digital market, national governments in the East African Community are reluctant to implement a single digital market, leading us to inquire: What constrains digital market integration in East Africa? This article compares Rwanda and Tanzania, two relatively digitally mature but less developed countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, whereas one is a small landlocked country and the other a larger emerging economy. Following the classification of Hout and Salih, material, ideational, political, and external aspects affect a nation’s enthusiasm for regional initiatives. By examining factors related to domestic politics and political economy, this article finds that material and political factors encourage digital regionalism in Rwanda but discourage it in Tanzania; ideational factors contribute to national rather than regional unity in both countries. Yet, external factors linked to EU foreign policy and developmental cooperation seem to lead current regional projects. Therefore, this article concludes that drivers of African regionalism may turn into barriers depending on the domestic political and economic circumstances while digital market integration is currently driven by foreign players. More generally, the study contributes to the debate on African agency in ICT for development and developing countries’ capacity to overcome traditional dependency structures.

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“…Alpha Lisimba and Swati Parashar (2020) investigate the impact of China's aid, trade and investments on the development trajectories in postcolonial Africa, with a focus on Rwanda. The study deploys dependency theory and world systems theory to examine how the global economic configuration operates though the hierarchy of core, semi-periphery and periphery among the states.…”

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Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of Africa

Parashar

Schulz

2021

Third World Quarterly

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The debate triggered by recent publications and research justifying colonialism demands an intellectual engagement with the histories of colonialism, and their impact on postcolonial trajectories of development, peace and conflict. The argument that colonialism inspired development in societies that embraced its modernity project, enlightened governance and efficient administration -which in turn inspired national consciousness embedded in anti-colonial struggles -has been extensively critiqued. However, less attention has been paid to colonialism's enduring everyday impact and visible continuities. We argue that the present political moment defined by right-wing, conservative and insular nationalisms and racisms -particularly in Western politiesrequires deeper critique. It demands an intensive re-engagement with colonialism's legacies, the politics of race and racism and the postcolonial (un)making of 'selfhood' and 'nation-statehood' evidenced in many parts of the world. This collection revisits the impact of colonialism on the postcolonial politics and decolonial developments in Africa; its focus is to reinvestigate the endurance and efficacy of the power relations devised and propagated by the European colonial projects and their continued presence in African states and societies. On retelling 'old' storiesIn 2020, a year marked by one of the most catastrophic pandemics of the modern era, which has exacerbated global inequalities, the 'Black Lives Matter' (BLM) movement took the world by storm. Since 2013, the BLM movement has highlighted how coloniality and racism continue to determine social relations, political exchanges, cultural hierarchies, epistemic erasures and strategic silences in normalising a predominantly white, Euro-American world order. The BLM movement itself built on other activist calls including the 'Rhodes Must Fall' protests in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2015, to bring down the statue of Cecil Rhodes, a well-known and celebrated imperialist. The original protests escalated into a wider movement in South Africa, the UK and the US to bring down statues of institutionally exalted former colonialists and imperialists.

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The ‘state’ of postcolonial development: China–Rwanda ‘dependency’ in perspective

Cited by 15 publications

References 48 publications

Exploring Rwanda’s Diplomatic Efforts to Attract Foreign Investors: The Case Study of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Exploring Rwanda’s Diplomatic Efforts to Attract Foreign Investors: The Case Study of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Drivers and Barriers of Digital Market Integration in East Africa: A Case Study of Rwanda and Tanzania

Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of Africa

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