Thinking about Developmental States in Africa

By T. Mkandawire. 2001

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Citations in the corpus

• Developmental States and Sustainability Transitions: Prospects of a Just Transition in South Africa (2016, background): “While the DS literature has been widely used to address the development challenges of industrializing economies in the global South (Bagchi, 2000; Chang, 2007; Chibber, 2002; Edigheji, 2010; Evans, 2010; Kohli, 2006; Leftwich, 1995; Mkandawire, 2001; Rodrik, Subramanian, & Trebbi, 2004; Swilling, 20”
• Resource Impact: Curse or Blessing? A Literature Survey (2003, background): “This can be some form of “social anchor” linking the elite into society more generally (Mkandawire, 2001) or might be some other constraint.”
• After the Crisis: Industrial Policy and the Developmental State in Low‐Income Countries (2010, background): “…Bank’s Accelerated Development in sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Action (1981), which portrayed postcolonial policy and performance in Africa as disastrous and ushered in what became the conventional wisdom on the state in Africa: an undifferentiated source of pathologies (Mkandawire, 2001).”
• Political institutions and developmental governance in sub-Saharan Africa (2004, background): “They would, in this sense, provide political foundations for the organisational cohesion and social embeddedness of what are sometimes called ‘developmental states ’ (Englebert 2000; Evans 1995; Mkandawire 2001).”
• Beyond the Stereotype: Restating the Relevance of the Dependency Research Programme (2020, background): “Different variations of this critique can be found in Angotti (1981), Booth (1985), C. John- son (1981), Mkandawire (2001), Petras and Brill (1985), Pieterse (1988), Sanchez (2003), Skocpol (1981), Smith (1979). most relevant for world systems theory (Kay, 1989).31 As discussed, dependency…”
• Neopatrimonialism and the Political Economy of Economic Performance in Africa: Critical Reflections (2015, background): “…or so.139 comparative research identifies considerable differences in economic performance among african countries140 and recent econometric analyses identify many periods of 136 i addressed this issue in an earlier article on the possibility of developmental states in africa. mkandawire 2001.”
• African military coups d'état, 1956–2001: frequency, trends and distribution (2003, background): “While there was variation, African economies performed reasonably well up to the end of the 1970s (Mkandawire 2001).”