Business and the State in Southern Africa : : The Politics of Economic Reform / / Scott D. Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Scott D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Map of Southern Africa --; 1 Business and the State --; 2 The Origins and Fate of Business-State Coalitions --; 3 Business-State Cooperation in Zambia: Rhetoric and Realities --; 4 From Partnership to Enmity: Business, the State, and Economic Collapse in Zimbabwe --; 5 South Africa: Both Model and Cautionary Tale? --; 6 Crafting Business-State Coalitions: Lessons for, and from, Southern Africa --; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms --; List of Interviews --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626371019; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626371019
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Scott D. Taylor.

Why are productive, development-supporting relations between business and government still so rare in Africa? Scott Taylor addresses this question, examining state-business coalitions as they emerge, and endure or collapse, in three representative countries: Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Taylor illuminates three possible trajectories: an abortive state-business coalition, as in Zambia; the emergence of a short-lived coalition, as in Zimbabwe; and a relatively successful and thus far durable coalition, as in South Africa. Though rooted in the southern African experience, his cases reflect much of the variance in outcomes throughout sub-Saharan Africa and shed light on the prospects for economic reform and development on the continent.