Papers by Zavareh Rustomjee
Development Southern Africa
This article analyses policies and strategies adopted by Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe in order t... more This article analyses policies and strategies adopted by Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe in order to develop linkage industries from the mineral sector. Whilst Southern Africa has a strongly integrated regional value chain for equipment and services related to mining, linkage development strategies in the three countries under examination have been formulated within narrow domestic frameworks. The evidence suggests that the success or failure of a resource-based industrialisation approach is country and sector specific, requiring the deployment of different and appropriately tailored policy instruments. Our research uncovered important crosscountry variations in terms of opportunities created by specific mineral commodities, ambition and scope of industrial and linkage development strategies, and institutional capabilities to ensure enforcement and coherence with other policies.
SSRN Electronic Journal
provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable ... more provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable development. The Institute began operations in 1985 in Helsinki, Finland, as the first research and training centre of the United Nations University. Today it is a unique blend of think tank, research institute, and UN agency-providing a range of services from policy advice to governments as well as freely available original research. UNU-WIDER acknowledges specific programme contribution from the National Treasury of South Africa to its project 'Regional Growth and Development in Southern Africa' and core financial support to its work programme from the governments of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
SSRN Electronic Journal
provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable ... more provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable development. The Institute began operations in 1985 in Helsinki, Finland, as the first research and training centre of the United Nations University. Today it is a unique blend of think tank, research institute, and UN agency-providing a range of services from policy advice to governments as well as freely available original research.
Transformation Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 2009
The apartheid state's selective intervention to shape South Africa's industrial development aroun... more The apartheid state's selective intervention to shape South Africa's industrial development around the minerals energy complex included the establishment and support of state-owned enterprises in chemicals and steel in the form of Sasol and Iscor. Both of these companies were privatised at the end of the 1980s and appear to be infant industries that have grown-up. Under democracy, we find the corporate strategies of the two companies to have been very important in the continued skewed resource and energy oriented industrial development path of South Africa. Our evaluation of industrial policy through the lens of its engagement with, and impact on, the decisions of these two companies reveals it has largely failed to come to terms with the interests and power of these companies and the implications for the economy.
Transformation Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 1991
Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 2010
The apartheid state's selective intervention to shape South Africa's industrial development aroun... more The apartheid state's selective intervention to shape South Africa's industrial development around the minerals energy complex included the establishment and support of state-owned enterprises in chemicals and steel in the form of Sasol and Iscor. Both of these companies were privatised at the end of the 1980s and appear to be infant industries that have grown-up. Under democracy, we find the corporate strategies of the two companies to have been very important in the continued skewed resource and energy oriented industrial development path of South Africa. Our evaluation of industrial policy through the lens of its engagement with, and impact on, the decisions of these two companies reveals it has largely failed to come to terms with the interests and power of these companies and the implications for the economy.
Development Southern Africa, 1998
At first sight, the review of our book, South Africa's political economy: from minerals-... more At first sight, the review of our book, South Africa's political economy: from minerals-energy complex to industrialisation (1996), by Bell & Farrell (1997), is most fulsome in its praise. It begins by suggesting:'One of the merits of this book is that it gives centre-stage to South ...
African Studies Review, 1999
Social Dynamics, 1992
ABSTRACT Economic policy in South Africa in the interwar period is discussed in the context of di... more ABSTRACT Economic policy in South Africa in the interwar period is discussed in the context of differences between the economic power and political influence of Afrikaner as opposed to mining capital. Previous analyses have been limited by overgeneralisation, narrowness of scope and analytical methodologies which have overemphasised class agencies at the expense of actual and potential economic linkages. State economic interventions are shown to have differed in influence and in impact by area of application. No coherent policy was followed for the development of industry based on agricultural products. Instead, policies were subordinated to devolving central power to fragmented agricultural interests. Industrial policy is shown to have been confined to protection, other forms of subsidy and the creation of a state sector around heavy industry rather than being linked to a strategy of diversification out of the base provided by the activities associated with mining. Despite this lack of a conducive framework, preliminary research reveals that constrained industrial diversification did occur in isolated cases, including chemical and industrial diamond products, suggesting that other development trajectories were possible.
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