SLIDE 1 Arrested Development? ?
Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World-Economy 1965 - 2015
Marilyn Grell-Brisk & Prof. Christian Suter University of Neuchâtel 112th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Refereed Roundtable
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In Introductio ion
ØMacro-comparative approach
Wallerstein, I. 1974. The Modern World System
ØExtreme case comparisons Seawright & Gerring. 2008. Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research
SLIDE 3 Da Data and Me Meth thod
ØA question of approach
- Wallerstein conceptualization of semi-periphery
- structural inequality
- how do you measure global economic
stratification?
SLIDE 4 Da Data and Me Meth thod
ØArrighi and Drangel
- Percent of world population as a function of log GNI
per capita
- Period of study: 1965 to 2015
- Time not geographic space held constant
SLIDE 5 Ca Categori
tion
0% 5% 10% 15% 1 2 3 4 5 6
peripheral economic zone core economic zone
2015 Log GNI Per Capita Percentage of Total World Population
semiperipheral economic zone
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Re Results
ØPosition of populous countries ØPosition of SSA over time
SLIDE 7 Re Results
Distribution of world population and countries in the global economic hierarchy 1991
SLIDE 8 Re Results
Red: core Yellow: semiperiphery Green: periphery
1991 global economic hierarchy
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Distribution of world population and countries in the global economic hierarchy 2001
SLIDE 10 Re Results
Red: core Yellow: semiperiphery Green: periphery
2001 global economic hierarchy
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Distribution of world population and countries in the global economic hierarchy 2010
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2010 global economic hierarchy
Red: core Yellow: semiperiphery Green: periphery
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ØPost-decolonization 1965
- SSA countries in semiperiphery included
South Africa Gabon Seychelles Zimbabwe Zambia
- Remaining SSA countries in periphery
SLIDE 14 Re Results
Percent of SSA in the periphery and semiperiphery from 1965 through 2015.
SLIDE 15 Re Results
Position of Sub-Saharan African countries in the periphery 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015.
SLIDE 16 Re Results
ØSSA countries
- enter at the semiperipheral zone and stay there
- move from bottom of distribution to semiperipheral
zone and stay there
- move up steadily in hierarchy during period of
significant Chinese economic intervention
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Re Results
at the country level
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ØImpact of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs)? ØStrengthening civil society? ØUneven development and inherently unbalanced economy/‘enclave and dual economy’?
Co Coun untry in F y in Focus cus
Zimbabwe
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ØPost-independence economic landscape ØIllusory dynamic economic growth ØIMF declares “under-borrower” ØExogenous stress factors ØExtreme debt ØLand reforms
Co Coun untry in F y in Focus cus
Zimbabwe
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ØQuintessential example of democratic economic development ØWhat does luck have to do with it? ØHomogeneity?
Co Coun untry in F y in Focus cus
Botswana
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ØInstitutional reasons for development ØExogenous factors ØWithin country inequality
Co Coun untry in F y in Focus cus
Botswana
SLIDE 22 Arr Arres ested ed devel elop
ent? t?
SSA in the stratified world-economic system
ØDecreasing between country inequality and possibility for SSA ØDutch disease? ØGeopolitics?
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Th Thank You
