Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63336 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2006/73
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper examines the relationship between institution building and economic performance in Mauritius, Botswana and Uganda. The rationale for comparing these cases is simple. While the three have been super-economic stars in their own right, they have achieved substantially different outcomes. Mauritius has achieved Asia-type rapid growth, backed by the structural transformation of the economy from colonial commodity production (sugar) to postcolonial higher value-added industrial and information outcomes. Botswana has delivered rapid and sustained growth with no structural economic transformation. Uganda has attained rapid growth for a shorter postcolonial period (since 1992) and with no structural transformation. This paper contends that these cross-national differences largely arise from the presence of developmental nationalism plus Weberian bureaucracies in Mauritius and Botswana, and their absence in Uganda.
Subjects: 
developmental nationalism
economic performance
Africa
JEL: 
B52
O57
P16
P17
ISBN: 
9291908517
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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