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Lavers, Tom ; Terrefe, Biruk ; Gebresenbet, Fana:
Powering the "Developmental State".
In: Lavers, Tom
(ed.):
Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance. -
Oxford
: Oxford University Press
,
2024
. - pp. 88-117
ISBN 9780192871213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871213.003.0004
Abstract in another language
Limited progress with industrialization during the 2000s led the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) to launch the two five-year Growth and Transformation Plans that consolidated what the government described as its ‘developmental state’ strategy focused on maintaining rapid growth rates and finally achieving the structural transformation of the economy. This chapter examines this upsurge in ambition and, in doing so, highlights a central contradiction in the EPRDF’s ‘developmental state’ project. This is that, unlike the East Asian states on which the government modelled itself, Ethiopia struggled to build and empower the technical and bureaucratic expertise required to deliver on the political elite’s developmental ambitions. The result in the electricity sector was that political pressure for ever-more rapid progress combined with reliance on foreign contractors to bypass technical input, resulting in a series of increasingly risky and inefficient projects.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | dams; electricity; agriculture; Nile; Ethiopia; political economy; Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF); Meles Zenawi; developmental state; renewable energy |
| Subject classification: | Environmental Politics; International Relations |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Sociology of Africa > Chair Sociology of Africa - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Sociology of Africa |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2024 06:52 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2024 06:02 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/91281 |