Timothy M. Shaw and Leah McMillan Polonenko
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447328537
- eISBN:
- 9781447328551
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447328537.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The second decade of the 21st century may be that of Africa’s renaissance. As Africa’s economic agencies have come to advocate the adoption of policies leading towards developmental states, so the ...
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The second decade of the 21st century may be that of Africa’s renaissance. As Africa’s economic agencies have come to advocate the adoption of policies leading towards developmental states, so the continent has articulated an African Mining Vision by contrast to other possible strategies for its natural resource governance from assorted global developmental, environmental, financial and industrial agencies. There is need to juxtapose two dominant interrelated strands in the political economy of today’s continent: the impact of the BRICs, especially China, and episodes of commodities boom and bust, this time with a focus on energy and minerals but, in future: food, land and water. Also, there is a wide variety of novel alternative forms of finance from new donors and foundations, sovereign wealth funds, Faith Based Organisations and global taxes for global public goods/partnerships. All these present Africa with the possibility of the emergence of development states.Less
The second decade of the 21st century may be that of Africa’s renaissance. As Africa’s economic agencies have come to advocate the adoption of policies leading towards developmental states, so the continent has articulated an African Mining Vision by contrast to other possible strategies for its natural resource governance from assorted global developmental, environmental, financial and industrial agencies. There is need to juxtapose two dominant interrelated strands in the political economy of today’s continent: the impact of the BRICs, especially China, and episodes of commodities boom and bust, this time with a focus on energy and minerals but, in future: food, land and water. Also, there is a wide variety of novel alternative forms of finance from new donors and foundations, sovereign wealth funds, Faith Based Organisations and global taxes for global public goods/partnerships. All these present Africa with the possibility of the emergence of development states.
Anthony Bebbington, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Marja Hinfelaar, and Cynthia Sanborn
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- July 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198820932
- eISBN:
- 9780191860478
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198820932.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. ...
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Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. The authors analyse resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. They focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. Special attention is paid to the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production. National elites and subnational actors are in continuous contention over extractive industry governance. Resource rents are used by elites to manage this contention and incorporate actors into governing coalitions and overall political settlements. Periodically, new resource frontiers are opened, and new political actors emerge with the power to redefine how extractive industries are governed and used as instruments for development. Colonial and post-colonial histories of resource extraction continue to give political valence to ideas of resource nationalism that mobilize actors who challenge existing institutional arrangements. The book is innovative in its focus on the political longue durée, and the use of in-depth, comparative, country-level analysis in Africa and Latin America, to build a theoretical argument that accounts for both similarity and divergence between these regions.Less
Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. The authors analyse resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. They focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. Special attention is paid to the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production. National elites and subnational actors are in continuous contention over extractive industry governance. Resource rents are used by elites to manage this contention and incorporate actors into governing coalitions and overall political settlements. Periodically, new resource frontiers are opened, and new political actors emerge with the power to redefine how extractive industries are governed and used as instruments for development. Colonial and post-colonial histories of resource extraction continue to give political valence to ideas of resource nationalism that mobilize actors who challenge existing institutional arrangements. The book is innovative in its focus on the political longue durée, and the use of in-depth, comparative, country-level analysis in Africa and Latin America, to build a theoretical argument that accounts for both similarity and divergence between these regions.
