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Research stream Business and Politics 1: Developmental Patrimonialism?
Led by Dr Tim Kelsall, currently resident in Phnom Penh, this stream of APPP research is exploring the ingredients of a favourable climate for long-term, productivity-enhancing investment in sub-Saharan Africa. Building on the recent outpouring of analysis of non-standard investment-promotion approaches in Asia, it is examining the range of relevant historical and contemporary experience in Africa and developing some techniques for theorising what it shows.
The research in this stream is expected to have significant implications for international approaches to the promotion of improved business climates, which currently depend too much on advocating first-best solutions and global best practices. Second-best approaches, which recognise the potential strengths as well as the disadvantages of patrimonial elements in business-politics interaction, have been unreasonably neglected in our view. The findings of the research will tell us important things about the precise conditions under which a ‘developmental patrimonialism’ is likely to be the best available option for a poor developing country.
An information sheet providing additional description and contact details for the stream is downloadable from here (
English (190KB). Downloadable publications particularly relevant to the stream include the Research Progress Report, Discussion Papers 6 and 7, and Working Paper 4.
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APPP Working Paper 12, Developmental patrimonialism? The case of Malawi by Cammack, Kelsall with Booth, Jul 2010 Eng More Info |
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APPP Working Paper 9, Kelsall and Booth, Developmental patrimonialism?, July 2010 Eng More Info |
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Business and Politics 2 Fr More Info |
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Business and Politics 1 Fr More Info |
