Business and the State in Southern Africa: The Politics of Economic Reform

✍ Scribed by Scott D. Taylor

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Why are productive, development-supporting relations between business and government still so rare in Africa? Scott Taylor addresses this question, examining state-business coalitions as they emerge, and endure or collapse, in three representative countries: Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Taylor illuminates three possible trajectories: an abortive state-business coalition, as in Zambia; the emergence of a short-lived coalition, as in Zimbabwe; and a relatively successful and thus far durable coalition, as in South Africa. Though rooted in the southern African experience, his cases reflect much of the variance in outcomes throughout sub-Saharan Africa and shed light on the prospects for economic reform and development on the continent.

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