WILLIAM RENO
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198297406
- eISBN:
- 9780191685330
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198297406.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
As a consequence of the collapse of Cold War-era patron–client politics, Liberia and Sierra Leone are cases of humanitarian emergencies. The humanitarian emergencies in both states are due to the ...
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As a consequence of the collapse of Cold War-era patron–client politics, Liberia and Sierra Leone are cases of humanitarian emergencies. The humanitarian emergencies in both states are due to the collapse of their governments, particularly systems of rule. These countries experienced Cold War ruler's ability to control natural resources, as well as regional markets, in order to enhance their powers. After the Cold War, conditions for aid for abroad were required, as well as the imposition of economic reforms mandated by the World Bank, and these pressures exposed Liberia and Sierra Leone to different vulnerabilities. In this chapter, an analysis of the relationship between politics and the market is given, as well as an explanation of how changes in them affect the countries. Patron–client politics is also focused as well, so as to help the reader understand the breakdown of such and the struggles it undergoes so that its terms may be redefined.Less
As a consequence of the collapse of Cold War-era patron–client politics, Liberia and Sierra Leone are cases of humanitarian emergencies. The humanitarian emergencies in both states are due to the collapse of their governments, particularly systems of rule. These countries experienced Cold War ruler's ability to control natural resources, as well as regional markets, in order to enhance their powers. After the Cold War, conditions for aid for abroad were required, as well as the imposition of economic reforms mandated by the World Bank, and these pressures exposed Liberia and Sierra Leone to different vulnerabilities. In this chapter, an analysis of the relationship between politics and the market is given, as well as an explanation of how changes in them affect the countries. Patron–client politics is also focused as well, so as to help the reader understand the breakdown of such and the struggles it undergoes so that its terms may be redefined.
Hannah C. M. Bulloch
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780824858865
- eISBN:
- 9780824873646
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824858865.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter focuses on development as a “civic project.” It explores local symbols of orchestrated community-wide development, including infrastructure, ceremony and signage. The chapter argues that ...
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This chapter focuses on development as a “civic project.” It explores local symbols of orchestrated community-wide development, including infrastructure, ceremony and signage. The chapter argues that a defining feature of such symbols is a concern with development as a performative display. Tied as they are to clientelist politics, local government-led development initiatives are largely about “branding” both projects and people in their patron’s name, (re)producing webs of utang kabubut-on(debt of obligation), intended to reinforce the status quo. Entangled in this local political economy of development, are international bilateral and multilateral agencies, equipped with the latest international development orthodoxy and a remit to work in “partnership” with the local government. The incommensurability of these approaches is revealed when “partnership” morphs into a system of largely separate and parallel structures for implementing local development.Less
This chapter focuses on development as a “civic project.” It explores local symbols of orchestrated community-wide development, including infrastructure, ceremony and signage. The chapter argues that a defining feature of such symbols is a concern with development as a performative display. Tied as they are to clientelist politics, local government-led development initiatives are largely about “branding” both projects and people in their patron’s name, (re)producing webs of utang kabubut-on(debt of obligation), intended to reinforce the status quo. Entangled in this local political economy of development, are international bilateral and multilateral agencies, equipped with the latest international development orthodoxy and a remit to work in “partnership” with the local government. The incommensurability of these approaches is revealed when “partnership” morphs into a system of largely separate and parallel structures for implementing local development.
