Case Studies Flashcards
1
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Taxation
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Senegal vs. South Africa
2
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Senegal
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(Moore)
- Urban vs. Rural
- Accounts
- Colonial Impact
- Poor Extraction/ State legitimacy
3
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South Africa
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(Di John)
- Mid 90s’ ARA transformation
- High GPD 1997-2002
- Tax compiance due to
- Colonial factors (labour reserve)
- POCO factors (agency collaboration, ANC strong party, redistribution - Issues - no informal taxing, doesn’t mean capacity across the board
4
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Resource Curse
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Zambia vs. Botswana
5
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Zambia
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(Saunders and Caramento)
1) Copper for 5 decades
2) 70s collapse, 80s SAPs, 2000s super-cycle and elite rent-seeking
3) PF 2011 : help locals, resource nationalism
4) Foreign backlash, contestation
6
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Resource Curse
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Zambia vs. Botswana
7
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Zambia
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(Saunders + Caramento)
- copper for 5 decades
- 70s collapse, 80s SAPs, 2000s elite rentseeking and supercycle
- PF 2011 (resource nationalism)
- foreign backlash and response
8
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Botswana
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(Selolwane)
- Colonial situation (labour reserve to cattle)
- POCO conditions (migrant earners and drought)
- Resource transfer through (independence, aid and investing minerals into cattle)
- Diamonds discovery
- sustained growth in the 80s
- rural investment (redistribution, infrastructure)
- ignored West privatization
- development banks to attract private investment
9
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Neopatrimonialism
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Ethiopia vs. Mozambique
10
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Ethiopia
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(Altenburg)
- 85% working rural, agrarian economy
2) top down, authoritarian export led growth strategy - invested in knowledge and skills
- encouraged private investment/ limited liberalization
Tunisia also kept 5% growth with authoritarian strategy
11
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Mozambique
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(Warren-Rodriguez)
- 1975 Gained independence
- SAPs in 80s, liberalization
- High interest rates and competition
- no policy to adequately address issues
