African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999
Nicolas van de Walle
Twenty years of reform, and the crisis somehow never ended.
Van de Walle asked why two decades of structural adjustment failed to restore African growth, and answered that partial, stalled reform served incumbent rulers well: leaders adopted just enough liberalization to keep aid flowing while preserving the patronage and rents that sustained them. His account of permanent crisis and neopatrimonial politics explained why donor conditionality repeatedly failed.
Its legacy. It made partial reform and donor complicity central to explaining adjustment's failure.
- Author
- Nicolas van de Walle
- First published
- 2001
- Genre
- Political economy
- Theme
- Political Economy and Development
The End of Poverty
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