Fonctionnaires et hommes d'affaires au Mali

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ID4265501
AuthorsJean-Loup Amselle, Jean‐loup Amselle (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume26
Issue1
Pages63-72
Publication date1987-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitique africaine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0244-7827 • E-ISSN: 2264-5047
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/polaf.1987.3869
OpenAlexW4376060742
LanguageFR
Citations received8

Civil servants and businessmen in Mali. Mali is a poor and quite underdeveloped country. It has known nevertheless a very dynamic trading tradition. Today we should distinguish three categories of traders - those of traditional products like cola and traditional practices : - the sons of the latter who, having undergone a modern training abroad, prefer to stick to business and not become civil servants ; - former civil servants who have gone into business : «the new businessmen». Relations between these and the state are of utmost importance. First the private sector has «ruined» successively the «public» sector and so has replaced it. But they have utilized their relations with the state to accumulate. Therefore there is just one class with two components, a bureaucratic and a trading one. Trade is a more successful venture than industry but the trends of accumulation and die dynamism of trade and exchange does not allow us to speak of a «backward», Le. non acumuladve, economy. The cultural background and ethos of the merchant community explains this specific evolution : it is a «rational» one

Bureaucracy · Civil servants · Civil society · Dynamism · Economics · Economy · Ethos · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Private sector · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Law

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