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The Theory And Practice Of Building Developmental States In The Global South, Jewellord Nem Singh, Jesse Salah Ovadia
The Theory And Practice Of Building Developmental States In The Global South, Jewellord Nem Singh, Jesse Salah Ovadia
Political Science Publications
Reviewing decades of thinking regarding the role of the state in economic development, we argue for the continued relevance of the concept of the ‘developmental state’. With reference to Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, Rwanda and China, we contend that new developmental states are evidence of a move beyond the historical experience of East Asian development. Further, we argue for the applicability of the developmental state framework to key questions of governance, institution building, industrial policy and the extractive industries, as well as to a wide variety of cases of successful and failed state-led development in the early twenty-first century.
Studying The Developmental State: Theory And Method In Research On Industrial Policy And State-Led Development In Africa, Jesse Salah Ovadia, Christina Wolf
Studying The Developmental State: Theory And Method In Research On Industrial Policy And State-Led Development In Africa, Jesse Salah Ovadia, Christina Wolf
Political Science Publications
This paper examines theoretical and methodological issues in the study of African developmental states. We argue that applying this concept beyond East Asia must take into account changes in the global economic context–in particular systemic tendencies towards deficient consumer demand–to uncover the conditions under which demand for commodity production remains or becomes expansionary. We further argue for a mixed methods case study approach to structural transformation, blending quantitative and qualitative evidence at multiple levels of analysis. The examples of concrete manufacturing and oil and gas in Nigeria and Tanzania illustrate our approach to researching state-led development in Africa.