15:30 - 17:00
The Return of Authoritarian Developmentalists? Emerging Strategies, Ideologies and International Enablers I: Political and Economic Strategies
Room: Muirhead – Lecture Theatre – G15
Stream: The Politics of Development in Africa
Chair/s:
Barnaby Dye
15:30 - 15:45
Th-A50 Politics of Development 1-P-001
The politics of distribution in Ethiopia’s ‘development state’: Ideas and interests in the evolution of EPRDF policy
Tom Lavers
Lecturer in Politics & Development Global Development Institute University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
15:45 - 16:00
Th-A50 Politics of Development 1-P-002
Making Ethiopia the manufacturing hub of Africa: Ideas and policy practices in the apparel export sector
Lindsay Whitfield
Centre of African Economies University of Roskilde, Roskilde, Denmark
16:00 - 16:15
Th-A50 Politics of Development 1-P-003
Tanzania and the limits of an ‘authoritarian advantage’
Hazel Gray
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
16:15 - 16:30
Th-A50 Politics of Development 1-P-004
Legacy, Practice And Counterbalance: Towards An Enriched Comparative Politics Of ‘Authoritarian East Africa’
Jeremy Arnon
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom