The Ethiopian developmental state

Clapham, Christopher

doi:10.1080/01436597.2017.1328982

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“…Kuye and Tania Ajam, 2012, p. 51). Ethiopia and Rwanda (Clapham 2018(Clapham , p. 1151 and Botswana (Botlhale 2017) are also among the African countries that embrace developmental state ideas. In Turkey, a developmentalist discourse is seen in the research and development (R&D) sector (Kutlay and Karaoğuz 2018).…”

Section: On Political Will and Incentives: Discourse And Partial Succmentioning

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The developmental state in the 21st century: A critical analysis and a suggested way forward

Karaoğuz

2022

Panoeconomicus

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A vast literature has accumulated on the developmental state since its introduction to scholarship in the 1980s. Despite many criticisms, developmental state is still the most viable alternative to the orthodoxy in the eyes of many. This article analytically investigates the sources of pessimism and optimism in the building of 21st century developmental states. The study notes that although there are sound reasons to be pessimistic regarding the emergence of successful cases in the new millennium, there are also reasonable grounds to be optimistic. A complex dynamic within and between domestic and international spheres determines the outcome, but there is no reason to disregard prematurely or embrace indisputably the developmental state construct.

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Section: On Political Will and Incentives: Discourse And Partial Succmentioning

confidence: 99%

The developmental state in the 21st century: A critical analysis and a suggested way forward

Karaoğuz

2022

Panoeconomicus

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“…The government has been employing different processes of power building procedures in the two places. The basic principle employed in the core areas, owing to historical, and cultural contexts, was the formation of hierarchical, dominant-subordinate land ownership rights (Jemma, 2001;and Clapham, 2018). On the contrary, the last frontiers of peripheral areas hosted the theorem of deforesting communal land titles and replacing them with government introduced juridical modern titling (Makki, 2012).…”

Section: Spatial Based Irregular Land Entitlement Treatments Under Thmentioning

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Land Titling and Power Building in the Three Regimes of Ethiopia: The Last Empire, the First Republic, and the Second Republic

2020

JCSD

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Land is not a mere physical resource in Ethiopia; rather it has a strong tie with social values and political power. Apparently, scholars in this particular area have largely focued on the residual effects of land dispossessions and the harsh incursions into the communal sanctities. Moreover, they paid an enormous attention to the effects of land grabbing on the economic, social and human rights of individuals. However, this article argues that less attention has been given to the role of land titlting in buiding the power of political elites in Ethiopia. In order to explore this, the article attempted to anlyze the three regimes in Ethiopia-the Emperial, Derg, and EPRDF-and their land entitlment strategies as a means of power making and legitimization of the establishments. The artilce, thus, concludes that there have been a strong connection between land and power in the three regimes of Ethiopia and it maintains that land tilting strategies have been extensively used for the political interests and power grabbing objectives of the regimes.

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“…The Ethiopian manifestation of the developmental state exhibits typical characteristics of other developmental states: interventionist, strong, and vision-oriented (Dejene and Cochrane 2018). The key architect, the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, believed that the developmental state allowed for the creation of effective and appropriate policies that can be sustained over the long term (Clapham 2017;Zenawi 2012, n.d.). It is the developmental state that is the foundation of some of the narratives evaluated in this article, such as in assuming that this approach can lead economic transformation and facilitate rapid economic growth.…”

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Contextualizing Narratives of Economic Growth and Navigating Problematic Data: Economic Trends in Ethiopia (1999–2017)

Cochrane

Bekele

2018

Economies

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There are common narratives about economic growth in Ethiopia. We analyze four common narratives, namely, that (1) the economy is transforming from agriculture to industry, (2) that national economic growth has been rapid and sustained, (3) that Ethiopia’s economy is largely agricultural, and (4) that there is a looming debt crisis, largely due to lending from China. In many instances, the justification for these narratives is based upon single years or specific data points. We examine these narratives over the long term, to assess if they are supported by available macroeconomic data. In doing so, we encountered significant issues with data quality and consistency. This article presents the available datasets from 1999 to 2017 and concludes that the commonly made claims about the Ethiopian economy are sometimes accurate, sometimes incomplete, and other times inaccurate. We call for greater attention to primary data, and primary datasets, as opposed to relying upon secondary summaries, single years, or specific data points to make generalized claims.

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The Ethiopian developmental state

Cited by 124 publications

References 19 publications

The developmental state in the 21st century: A critical analysis and a suggested way forward

The developmental state in the 21st century: A critical analysis and a suggested way forward

Land Titling and Power Building in the Three Regimes of Ethiopia: The Last Empire, the First Republic, and the Second Republic

Contextualizing Narratives of Economic Growth and Navigating Problematic Data: Economic Trends in Ethiopia (1999–2017)

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