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Corruption and Accumulation in Zambia

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Corruption and Development in Africa

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The strategic role good governance should play in African socioeconomic development has been the object of concern for Western donor countries and aid agencies since the 1980s. Recently, however, the issue of corruption has re-emerged as a problem of concern in the dealings between African governments and Western donors. Increasingly, there is heightened recognition of the negative impact of government corruption on the socioeconomic process, as well as its corrosive impact on society and fledgling democratization. Consequently, the World Bank and IMF ‘have started to push a more robust political agenda with strong attacks on corruption’ (Africa Confidential, 1996). Thus, the subject of corruption has not only been moved to the top of the political agenda but a high premium has also been placed on combating corruption in government. Underpinning the good governance agenda of the Western donors and Bretton Woods institutions is political reform, entailing the transition from one-party systems to political pluralism, and coupled with economic liberalization and privatization of state enterprises. That agenda, in turn, was supposed to remove some of the factors contributing to corruption.

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  1. University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

    Kempe Ronald Hope Sr (Professor of Development Studies) (Professor of Development Studies)

  2. Department of Development Studies, University of North West, Mmabatho, South Africa

    Bornwell C. Chikulo (Head) (Head)

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Chikulo, B.C. (2000). Corruption and Accumulation in Zambia. In: Hope, K.R., Chikulo, B.C. (eds) Corruption and Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982440_9

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