| Title: | The Business of Development in Post-Colonial Africa |
| Authors: | Véronique Dimier, Author ; Sarah Stockwell, Author |
| Publisher: | Springer, 2020 |
| Series: | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, ISSN 2635-1633 |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-3-030-51108-1 |
| Size: | 360 p. |
| Languages: | English |
| Descriptors: |
[Eurovoc] BUSINESS AND COMPETITION > business classification > type of business > foreign enterprise [Eurovoc] BUSINESS AND COMPETITION > legal form of organisations > organisation > European company [Eurovoc] ECONOMICS > economic conditions > economic development [Eurovoc] GEOGRAPHY > Africa [Eurovoc] INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS > world organisations > world organisation > Commonwealth [Eurovoc] INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS > international affairs > national independence > colonialism |
| Tags: | colonial companies, business ; economic policy ; development policy ; European decolonisation ; foreign enterprise ; development aid ; charity ; British Empire ; French Empire ; Portuguese Empire ; Italian companies ; Belgian Empire ; European Community |
| Abstract: | This collection brings together a range of case studies of European companies (most notably those of former colonial powers) and considers their involvement in development after European decolonisation. In this way, the book makes an original contribution to post-colonial studies. Individual chapters by both established and early career scholars examine the activities of foreign enterprise in various African states and the companies’ strategies to stay in Africa. They explore how businesses were not just challenged by the new international landscape but benefited from the opportunities it offered, particularly those provided by development aid. Together they constitute an important contribution to our understanding of both business and development in post-colonial Africa, redressing an imbalance in existing histories of both business and development which focus predominantly on the colonial period. This volume breaks new ground as one of the very first to bring the study of foreign companies and development aid into the same frame of analysis. |
| Contents note: |
Introduction: New Directions in the History of Business and Development in Post-Colonial Africa
Véronique Dimier, Sarah Stockwell Business, the Commonwealth and the Rhetoric of Development: The Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce and Africa, 1945–1974 Andrew Dilley Adapting to Independence: The East Africa Association, Post-Colonial Business Networks and Economic Development Poppy Cullen Belgian Firms, Development Plans and the Independence of the Belgian Congo Charlotte Strick Oil Companies as Agents of Post-Colonial Relations: France, Algeria, and Italy in the Sahara Marta Musso A Partner in Progress? Shell-BP’s Development Role in Nigeria During the Transition to Independence Chris Minton The ‘Know-How of the World is Mainly with Private Companies’: The Commonwealth Development Corporation and British Business in Post-Colonial Africa Sarah Stockwell Decolonising Finance, Africanising Banking François Pacquement The European Development Fund, a Dowry for French Companies? Véronique Dimier Displacing the French? Ivorian Development and the Question of Economic Decolonisation, 1946–1975 Abou B. Bamba European Private Sector and African Firms in EU-ACP Development Cooperation (1975–2000) Olivier Van den Bossche |
| Doi : |
DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-51106-7 
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