AfricaBib 
bibliographic database
| Previous page | New search |
The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here
 Periodical article |
 Leiden University catalogue |
 WorldCat |
| Title: | Business Associations and Growth Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Authors: | Bräutigam, Deborah Rakner, Lise Taylor, Scott |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 519-547 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Zambia Mauritius |
| Subjects: | democracy economic development private sector chambers of commerce Development and Technology Economics and Trade Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3876024 |
| Abstract: | Why are 'growth coalitions' involving business interest groups and governments so rare in Africa? How has democratization affected the possibilities for growth coalitions? In three cases with varying degrees of democracy - Mauritius, Zambia, and Zimbabwe - it appears that hypotheses about growth coalitions that place importance on the organization of the business sector are generally borne out. Yet even when the business community is organized in an 'ideal' manner, growth coalitions still depend on factors within the State: leadership, ideas, and capacity. Democratization has a mixed effect. The authors find that in the case of Zambia, business-State relations did not improve despite a pro-democracy stance by business and the pro-business agenda of the democratic government coming to power in 1991. In Zimbabwe, the erosion of democracy reduced business access to State elites, breaking up a growth coalition that initially showed considerable promise. In Mauritius, the strengthening of democracy has paralleled the deepening of the growth coalition, and both have been reinforced by a strong economy. The study shows that growth coalitions are possible in Africa; the key lies in determining the conditions under which such coalitions can be sustained in Africa's fragile polities. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
