Claude Ake presents the study of development as underpinned by Eurocentric teleologism. This refe... more Claude Ake presents the study of development as underpinned by Eurocentric teleologism. This refers particularly to how Western social sciences have been shaped around key disciplines that have been designed to restrain the ‘dynamic character of reality’, with a focus on analysing order as opposed to change. This article demonstrates the intellectual and practical limitations of linear understandings of change and transition that abstract from the ‘dynamic character of reality’ through disciplinary and other modes of confinement. This has, for instance, underpinned the tendency towards dichotomisation between the state and market across the ideological spectrum, in the study of development. The article responds to this challenge by centring critical African development thought in the work of Claude Ake, Thandika Mkandawire and Adebayo Olukoshi, and shows how conceptual development and analyses that are grounded in empirical experiences of transition problematise strict delineations ...
This article examines the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) engagement with industrial developmen... more This article examines the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) engagement with industrial development and associated investment as part of continental integration across time, including under the leadership of Akinwunmi Adesina, who was first elected into post as President of AfDB in 2015 and re-elected for a second term in August 2020. In doing so, this article considers the significance and influence of foreign capital to the Bank’s work. Examining the control of finance offers some scope for analysing the US rejection of AfDB’s governance processes in the management of misconduct allegations against Adesina and the subsequent request for an externally driven process in June 2020. An independently led panel vindicated the AfDB governance process and Adesina in July 2020. The US is the second largest shareholder of the Bank after Nigeria. This concern with finance is pertinent and timely given the continental policy engagement on this theme.1
Emerging economies have recently faced commodity price declines that reinforce the instability of... more Emerging economies have recently faced commodity price declines that reinforce the instability of natural resources as a basis for socio-economic transformation. This has re-energised arguments for industrialisation as necessary for such transitions. Drawing upon classical development economics theory, this paper offers a deployment of an enhanced developmental state paradigm (DSP) that highlights the roles of agriculture and mineral resources in the pursuit of industrial progress. This application of the DSP has its basis in narratives on Asian developmental states, with a focus on mineral resource endowment. Employed with reference to Africa’s key emerging economy and net petroleum exporter, Nigeria, the DSP shows how the state, influenced by significant milieus, has enabled linkages between oil and agriculture that can drive industrial transformation. The paper finds that linkages between oil and agriculture are well established; however, economic, social and political influences...
This paper locates the development planning era within the discourse on developmental statehood, ... more This paper locates the development planning era within the discourse on developmental statehood, with reference to Nigeria. It considers the state's use of development planning to facilitate resource transfers between economic sectors for the purpose of socio-economic transformation. The paper draws on the analytical framework of the enhanced developmental state paradigm (EDSP), which derives from the empirical experiences of East Asian developmental states and classical development economic concepts. It finds that although the development planning era was very significant for attempts at structural change, attendant processes and outcomes were undermined by changes in intellectual and policy debates on global development.
Post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) has come away from a dynamic reading of the role of the state ... more Post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) has come away from a dynamic reading of the role of the state within contemporary reflections on peacebuilding. This article introduces the framework of developmental PCR that draws on the developmental state paradigm to offer a lens for understanding the role of the state and its complex interlinkages with other milieus such as the market in PCR. Developmental PCR is premised on three tenets: interdependence between economic development and security; the importance of state–market interdependencies within industrial development, as reconstruction; and how characterisations of statehood interact with reconstruction. The deployment of developmental PCR in the case study of the Nigerian Civil War illuminates certain realities such as the significance of economic nationalism to security, complex interdependencies across the state and market that underpinned key elements of industrial policy during reconstruction, and the nuances in the characterisatio...
This chapter discusses an international political economy (IPE)-enhancement of the developmental ... more This chapter discusses an international political economy (IPE)-enhancement of the developmental state paradigm (DSP) that examines fiscal, production and consumption linkages with attention to industrial policy and intersectoral resource transfers. The chapter focuses on the Ethiopian state’s interactions with industrial development that prioritises links with agriculture, such as the Agricultural Development Led Industrialisation Strategy and how this is impinged upon by foreign capital. It responds to a gap in the literature on developmental statehood on the analysis of the interrelatedness between the state and foreign capital in development processes. It enables us to examine developmental statehood in Ethiopia at a key moment, with an emerging approach centering around a home-grown economic liberalisation agenda. .
The developmental state paradigm (DSP) has traversed global south contexts from Latin America to ... more The developmental state paradigm (DSP) has traversed global south contexts from Latin America to Asia with a revival in African contexts. However, there is limited understanding of how international political economy (IPE) dynamics influence the analysis offered by the DSP. This article addresses this gap by introducing an IPEenhanced DSP that centres interactions between the state and international capital in the analysis of industrialisation in the Ethiopian leather subsector and the role of Chinese investment. Its key finding is that these complex interactions influence and disrupt the classical roles of domestic private capital and domestic industrial demand in socio-economic transformation. RÉSUMÉ Le paradigme de l’État développemental (PED) est courant dans l’analyse économique des pays du Sud global, que ce soit en Amérique latine ou en Asie, et connaît une recrudescence dans l’étude des pays Africains. Cependant, l’on ne comprend pas encore complètement comment les dynamique...
The mine action sector has struggled to demonstrate the socioeconomic benefits of mine clearance.... more The mine action sector has struggled to demonstrate the socioeconomic benefits of mine clearance. Previous academic studies have made important contributions but have been limited in offering in-depth discussions of causal pathways. This paper seeks to fill that gap. It proposes a new framework, the Mine Clearance and Peacebuilding Synergies (MPS) framework that combines the Humanitarian Mine Action Peacebuilding Palette, the Mine Action- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework and theoretical considerations from the Infrastructure as Peacebuilding framework to interrogate this interaction. Using Somaliland's post-conflict reconstruction as a case study, we analyze qualitative and quantitative data to map both the direct and indirect benefits of mine clearance in relation to infrastructure development. We find that mine clearance can influence both economic and physical reconstruction through its impact on dominant economic sectors as well as critical strategic infrastruc...
This article examines the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) engagement
with industrial developme... more This article examines the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) engagement with industrial development and associated investment as part of continental integration across time, including under the leadership of Akinwunmi Adesina, who was first elected into post as President of AfDB in 2015 and re-elected for a second term in August 2020. In doing so, this article considers the significance and influence of for- eign capital to the Bank’s work. Examining the control of finance offers some scope for analysing the US rejection of AfDB’s govern- ance processes in the management of misconduct allegations against Adesina and the subsequent request for an externally driven process in June 2020.
Claude Ake presents the study of development as underpinned by Eurocentric teleologism. This refe... more Claude Ake presents the study of development as underpinned by Eurocentric teleologism. This refers particularly to how Western social sciences have been shaped around key disciplines that have been designed to restrain the ‘dynamic character of reality’, with a focus on analysing order as opposed to change. This article demonstrates the intellectual and practical limitations of linear understandings of change and transition that abstract from the ‘dynamic character of reality’ through disciplinary and other modes of confinement. This has, for instance, underpinned the tendency towards dichotomisation between the state and market across the ideological spectrum, in the study of development. The article responds to this challenge by centring critical African development thought in the work of Claude Ake, Thandika Mkandawire and Adebayo Olukoshi, and shows how conceptual development and analyses that are grounded in empirical experiences of transition problematise strict delineations ...
This article examines the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) engagement with industrial developmen... more This article examines the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) engagement with industrial development and associated investment as part of continental integration across time, including under the leadership of Akinwunmi Adesina, who was first elected into post as President of AfDB in 2015 and re-elected for a second term in August 2020. In doing so, this article considers the significance and influence of foreign capital to the Bank’s work. Examining the control of finance offers some scope for analysing the US rejection of AfDB’s governance processes in the management of misconduct allegations against Adesina and the subsequent request for an externally driven process in June 2020. An independently led panel vindicated the AfDB governance process and Adesina in July 2020. The US is the second largest shareholder of the Bank after Nigeria. This concern with finance is pertinent and timely given the continental policy engagement on this theme.1
Emerging economies have recently faced commodity price declines that reinforce the instability of... more Emerging economies have recently faced commodity price declines that reinforce the instability of natural resources as a basis for socio-economic transformation. This has re-energised arguments for industrialisation as necessary for such transitions. Drawing upon classical development economics theory, this paper offers a deployment of an enhanced developmental state paradigm (DSP) that highlights the roles of agriculture and mineral resources in the pursuit of industrial progress. This application of the DSP has its basis in narratives on Asian developmental states, with a focus on mineral resource endowment. Employed with reference to Africa’s key emerging economy and net petroleum exporter, Nigeria, the DSP shows how the state, influenced by significant milieus, has enabled linkages between oil and agriculture that can drive industrial transformation. The paper finds that linkages between oil and agriculture are well established; however, economic, social and political influences...
This paper locates the development planning era within the discourse on developmental statehood, ... more This paper locates the development planning era within the discourse on developmental statehood, with reference to Nigeria. It considers the state's use of development planning to facilitate resource transfers between economic sectors for the purpose of socio-economic transformation. The paper draws on the analytical framework of the enhanced developmental state paradigm (EDSP), which derives from the empirical experiences of East Asian developmental states and classical development economic concepts. It finds that although the development planning era was very significant for attempts at structural change, attendant processes and outcomes were undermined by changes in intellectual and policy debates on global development.
Post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) has come away from a dynamic reading of the role of the state ... more Post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) has come away from a dynamic reading of the role of the state within contemporary reflections on peacebuilding. This article introduces the framework of developmental PCR that draws on the developmental state paradigm to offer a lens for understanding the role of the state and its complex interlinkages with other milieus such as the market in PCR. Developmental PCR is premised on three tenets: interdependence between economic development and security; the importance of state–market interdependencies within industrial development, as reconstruction; and how characterisations of statehood interact with reconstruction. The deployment of developmental PCR in the case study of the Nigerian Civil War illuminates certain realities such as the significance of economic nationalism to security, complex interdependencies across the state and market that underpinned key elements of industrial policy during reconstruction, and the nuances in the characterisatio...
This chapter discusses an international political economy (IPE)-enhancement of the developmental ... more This chapter discusses an international political economy (IPE)-enhancement of the developmental state paradigm (DSP) that examines fiscal, production and consumption linkages with attention to industrial policy and intersectoral resource transfers. The chapter focuses on the Ethiopian state’s interactions with industrial development that prioritises links with agriculture, such as the Agricultural Development Led Industrialisation Strategy and how this is impinged upon by foreign capital. It responds to a gap in the literature on developmental statehood on the analysis of the interrelatedness between the state and foreign capital in development processes. It enables us to examine developmental statehood in Ethiopia at a key moment, with an emerging approach centering around a home-grown economic liberalisation agenda. .
The developmental state paradigm (DSP) has traversed global south contexts from Latin America to ... more The developmental state paradigm (DSP) has traversed global south contexts from Latin America to Asia with a revival in African contexts. However, there is limited understanding of how international political economy (IPE) dynamics influence the analysis offered by the DSP. This article addresses this gap by introducing an IPEenhanced DSP that centres interactions between the state and international capital in the analysis of industrialisation in the Ethiopian leather subsector and the role of Chinese investment. Its key finding is that these complex interactions influence and disrupt the classical roles of domestic private capital and domestic industrial demand in socio-economic transformation. RÉSUMÉ Le paradigme de l’État développemental (PED) est courant dans l’analyse économique des pays du Sud global, que ce soit en Amérique latine ou en Asie, et connaît une recrudescence dans l’étude des pays Africains. Cependant, l’on ne comprend pas encore complètement comment les dynamique...
The mine action sector has struggled to demonstrate the socioeconomic benefits of mine clearance.... more The mine action sector has struggled to demonstrate the socioeconomic benefits of mine clearance. Previous academic studies have made important contributions but have been limited in offering in-depth discussions of causal pathways. This paper seeks to fill that gap. It proposes a new framework, the Mine Clearance and Peacebuilding Synergies (MPS) framework that combines the Humanitarian Mine Action Peacebuilding Palette, the Mine Action- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework and theoretical considerations from the Infrastructure as Peacebuilding framework to interrogate this interaction. Using Somaliland's post-conflict reconstruction as a case study, we analyze qualitative and quantitative data to map both the direct and indirect benefits of mine clearance in relation to infrastructure development. We find that mine clearance can influence both economic and physical reconstruction through its impact on dominant economic sectors as well as critical strategic infrastruc...
This article examines the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) engagement
with industrial developme... more This article examines the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) engagement with industrial development and associated investment as part of continental integration across time, including under the leadership of Akinwunmi Adesina, who was first elected into post as President of AfDB in 2015 and re-elected for a second term in August 2020. In doing so, this article considers the significance and influence of for- eign capital to the Bank’s work. Examining the control of finance offers some scope for analysing the US rejection of AfDB’s govern- ance processes in the management of misconduct allegations against Adesina and the subsequent request for an externally driven process in June 2020.
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with industrial development and associated investment as part of
continental integration across time, including under the leadership of
Akinwunmi Adesina, who was first elected into post as President of
AfDB in 2015 and re-elected for a second term in August 2020. In
doing so, this article considers the significance and influence of for-
eign capital to the Bank’s work. Examining the control of finance
offers some scope for analysing the US rejection of AfDB’s govern-
ance processes in the management of misconduct allegations against
Adesina and the subsequent request for an externally driven process in
June 2020.
with industrial development and associated investment as part of
continental integration across time, including under the leadership of
Akinwunmi Adesina, who was first elected into post as President of
AfDB in 2015 and re-elected for a second term in August 2020. In
doing so, this article considers the significance and influence of for-
eign capital to the Bank’s work. Examining the control of finance
offers some scope for analysing the US rejection of AfDB’s govern-
ance processes in the management of misconduct allegations against
Adesina and the subsequent request for an externally driven process in
June 2020.