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The fate of a much-praised economic policy in politically overhauled country
By Andualem Sisay Gessesse @ NewBusinessEthiopia.com, June 7
An article published recently by Addis Standard, a local media, titled, Ethiopia’s developmental state dead or alive? prompted me to raise the issue in the middle of a conversation with my colleagues from different disciplines. I meant to find out what exactly do they know and think about the policy and whether they feel it has a future in the now politically overhauled government and country.
“The Ethiopian version of developmental state is very much different from what we have seen in other countries like the Asian Tigers. The government has tried to implement developmental state policy under its biased political landscape which favors certain group of the society because of their ethnicity or political attitude,” says a civil servant working at a federal government agency for many years now.
“Yeah, I don’t think the Asian Tigers divided their people under such bias, and focused only on building those beautiful roads and bridges starving their people. Had that been the case, per capita income of a South Korean today wouldn’t have been over $25,000,” explains the civil servant who later asked not to be identified by name when informed about this article [....]
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Article brought to my attention by this re-tweet by Francis Fukuyama:
Edit to add: The especially chronic problem in Africa of one tribe figuring out how to benefit over another and corrupting the goals of a nation state, no matter what reform system is introduced, is something that has interested me since I read Obama's Dreams from My Father.
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/09/2019 - 4:30pm
good to go back to the big picture that Peracles posted a few days ago:
http://dagblog.com/link/trade-disrupting-traditional-3rd-world-patterns-28227
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/09/2019 - 7:03pm