schema:description | "内容記述: Introduction: Origins; From Analysis to Advocacy; A Broadened Perspective: The analytical Approach, Limitations. Chapter 1. The Political Economy of Natural Resource Wealth: Natural Resource Wealth: The scramble for Africa, Initial returns, The World Wars and between, Towards decolonization; Economic Foundations of Authoritarianism: Rent-seeking state capitalism, Monopoly Production, Smallholder commodity production, Large-scale commercial agriculture; Authoritarian Regimes in Southern Africa; (Un)Intended Political Impacts of Structural Adjustment: Resistance, Enter the technocrats, Good Governance; Natural Resource Wealth: Old Challenges in the New Millennium: Continued dependence on natural resource wealth, Terms of trade and market fluctuations, Natural resource wealth and rent seeking, Challenges for civil society. Chapter 2. Tanzania: The Imperatives of Change: Agrarian socialism and authoritarianism; Structural Change and Natural Resource Sectors: Overcoming resistance, Restructuring the agricultural sector, Opening the mining sector, Expanding tourism; The Economic Impact of the Structural Reforms on Mining and Tourism; The Promise of Continuing Change: Benefits and Beneficiaries, Costs and their distribution, The political realm, A tentative balance sheet. Chapter 3. Zambia: Constructing the Authoritarian Regime: Economic and resource policy under Kaunda and UNIP; The Imperative to Adjust: Collapse of the copper economy, The reform package; Institutional Reforms for Rural Communities: Structural dualism, UNIP's institutional grip, The MMD's turn, Impact of reforms on deep rural areas, Opportunities and growing conflicts; Dismantling Dualism: To Whose Benefits?: Towards a new authoritarianism?, A tentative balance sheet. Chapter 4. Zimbabwe: The Foundations of Conflict: Settler colonialism, Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI), Independence; Economic Reforms: The need to reform, Impact of structural reforms on tourism, Three local experiences, Under adjustment's shadow, Political manipulation of the land questions; Towards Resolution or Protracted Conflict? Chapter 5. Natural Resource Wealth in the Construction of Neoliberal Economies in Southern Africa: What Groups or Economic Agents Have Gained or Lost; Control over Natural Resources in the Context of Economic Reforms?: From the state to private economic agents, Transfer of traditionally managed resources to private control, Transfer among private owners; Through What Processes, Policies and Relations Have These Groups Acquired or Lost Control over Natural Resources?: Establishing the neoliberal policy context, Providing guarantees and incentives, Institutional reforms, Corruption and collusion, Coercion; Will Those Changes Promote Sustainable Development Paths by Promoting Environmental Sustainability, Enhancing Social Equity and Increasing Governments' Public Accountability?: Environmental sustainability, Enhancing social equity, Political accountability and transparency; Pursing Reforms without a National Consensus: Misplaced policies, Misplaced priorities, Missing factor in the development equation; By Way of Recommendations: The Bretton Woods institutions; Strengthening the role of civil society, Guiding principles: natural resource wealth and the rural poor....(more)" |