1st Edition

Economic Change Governance and Natural Resource Wealth The Political Economy of Change in Southern Africa

By David Reed Copyright 2002
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

This volume analyzes the ways in which natural resource wealth has shaped authoritarian political regimes and statist economic systems in the countries of southern Africa in the post-colonial period. It consists of five essays. The first sets out the historical framework and emergence of natural resources as the crucial driver of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. Three essays, drawing on in-country... Read more
List of Maps * Foreword by Paul Nielson, European Commission * Preface by David Kaimowitz, Centre for International Forestry Research * Acknowledgements * Acronyms and Abbreviations * Introduction * The Political Economy of Natural Resource Wealth * Tanzania * Zambia * Zimbabwe * Natural Resource Wealth in the Construction of Neoliberal Economies in Southern Africa * Notes and References * Index

Biography

David Reed is director of WWWF-International's Macroeconomics Program Office located in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in development economics from the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Development, University of Geneva.