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Title: | After Mugabe goes: the economic and political reconstruction of Zimbabwe |
Author: | Parsons, R.W.K. |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 75 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 599-615 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | economic recession State collapse reform |
About person: | Robert Gabriel Mugabe (1924-2019) |
External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2007.00147.x/pdf |
Abstract: | This Presidential address to the Economic Society of South Africa Biennial Conference, 2007, outlines the developments in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980 leading up to the current political and economic crisis. The Zimbabwean situation is assessed within the conceptual framework of patrimonialism and predatory States. The origins of the Zimbabwean crisis are then analysed in their economic and political context leading to an eventual 'fragile' or 'failed' State. Evaluation of the crisis suggests that institutional damage has proceeded to the point at which only large-scale economic and political reconstruction offers sustainable long-term solutions, irrespective of when President Mugabe leaves office. The address concludes with an examination of the regional implications for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) - as well as the role of the global community - and outlines some of the core components of any reconstruction process-to-be in Zimbabwe. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |