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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968
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Blocking human potential : How formal policies block the informal sector in the Maputo Corridor
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper focuses on one of the most interesting cross-border regions in Africa, the so-called Maputo corridor. For more than a century the Maputo corridor has been an informal crossborder micro-region, constructed by millions of migrants, extensive informal trading as well as dense socio-ethnic interactions. Since the mid-1990s there is a formal project, officially known as the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC), which seeks to reconstruct and revitalize this rather informal cross-border relationship, which effectively has existed for more than a century. The aim of this paper is to relate the formal policies of the MDC with the underlying informal social fabric of this cross-border corridor, and determine to what extent the formal policies block or unlock the human potential of the micro-region.
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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968
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Micro-regionalism
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In: Chapter presentation at UNU-CRIS Workshop on gobal politics of regionalism, Bruges, 15-16 April.
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- Söderbaum, Fredrik, 1968
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Modes of regional governance in Africa : Neoliberalism, sovereignty-boosting and shadow networks
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In: Global Governance. - 1075-2846. ; 10:4 Oct-Dec, s. 419-436
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Drawing on critical international political economy (IPE), the purpose of the article is to assess some important modes of regional governance in Africa with regard to how these are related, by whom they are erected, and whom and what purpose they serve. The critical perspective and distinctions made between formal-informal and public-private modes of regional governance makes it possible to transcend the bias inherent in the conventional usage of the concept of governance (“good governance” and formal-public governance). The study highlights three modes of regional governance in Africa—neoliberal regional governance; sovereignty-boosting governance; and regional shadow governance—all which tend to have more informal and private characteristics than the conventional idealisation of formal-public governance. As a result they also have many negative consequences for the poor and excluded.
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