The Political Economy of Inappropriate Technology
Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4908571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey James (0000-0001-7012-4963, Tilburg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 415-431 |
| Publication date | 1996-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1996.tb00597.x |
| OpenAlex | W2143844848 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
The failure of public sector investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa can often be described in large measure as a technological one, where technology is defined not just in the narrow sense of alternative factor proportions, but in the wider terms of scale and import intensity as well. In confining itself mainly to the economic dimensions of the problem, the existing literature fails to consider the reasons for the extraordinarily rapid and widespread expansion of the public sector in Sub-Saharan Africa and it hence ignores the possibility that this expansion might itself be related to the observed patterns of technological behaviour in the sector. Such a possibility, I suggest, resides in the political and institutional compulsions that drive industrial firms in the public sector to increase the size of their operations
Development economics · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Industrialisation · Investment (military) · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public sector · Scale (ratio) · Technological change · Corporate Finance and Governance · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Public-Private Partnership Projects
The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa
Inside Bureaucracy
Bureaucrats and Politicians
Democracy, bureaucracy and public choice
Some properties of the Eastern European growth pattern
Optimal investment choice for developing countries
The capital intensity of foreign, private local and state owned firms in a less developed country
Business Behavior, Value and Growth
The Political Economy of Bureaucracy
Delegation and the Theory of the Firm
The political realities of African management
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
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| Citation span | 2004 - 2020 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |