| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-285) and index. |
| 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Industrial policy -- Africa.
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Industrial policy. |
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Africa. |
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Business enterprises -- Africa.
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Business enterprises. |
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Africa -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Handley, Antoinette. Business and the state in Africa. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008011872 |
| ISBN |
051141451X (electronic book) |
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9780511414510 (electronic book) |
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9780511415197 (electronic book) |
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0511415192 (electronic book) |
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0521713714 (Paper) |
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0521886058 (Cloth) |
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9780521886055 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780521713719 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786611751180 |
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