Economic Change Governance and Natural Resource Wealth: The Political Economy of Change in Southern Africa / Edition 1

by David Reed

Overview

This volume analyzes the ways in which natural resource wealth has shaped authoritarian political regimes and statist economic systems in the countries of southern Africa in the post-colonial period. It consists of five essays. The first sets out the historical framework and emergence of natural resources as the crucial driver of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. Three essays, drawing on in-country research, focus on Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. They show how this explains the economic evolution of those countries - in particular, the impacts of economic and institutional changes on the bulk of the population, the rural poor. The final essay explores the nature of the changes and their neoliberal economic context, and the ways in which their harmful consequences might be relieved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853838774
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/2001
Edition description:	1
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Reed is director of WWWF-International's Macroeconomics Program Office located in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in development economics from the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Development, University of Geneva.

Table of Contents

List of Maps * Foreword by Paul Nielson, European Commission * Preface by David Kaimowitz, Centre for International Forestry Research * Acknowledgements * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Introduction * The Political Economy of Natural Resource Wealth * Tanzania * Zambia * Zimbabwe * Natural Resource Wealth in the Construction of Neoliberal Economies in Southern Africa * Notes and References * Index