, Growth and Transformation Plan
For a broader reflexion on the developmental state see Tim Kelsall, Business, politics, and the state in Africa, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol.25, pp.289-313, 2011. ,
Bringing the developmental state back in: Contrasting development trajectories in Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia' (Paper presented at Society for the Advancement of Socio, SASE) 16th Annual Meeting, 2004. ,
, This is certainly the opinion of Negasso Gidada, first President of the Democratic Federal Republic of Ethiopia (1995-2000), for whom Meles' regime abandoned the Revolutionary Democratic ideology in the aftermath of the Ethiopian-Eritrean war, replacing it with the Renewal strategy in 2001, p.12, 2014.
Neither revolutionary nor democratic: A critical review of EPRDF's conception of Revolutionary Democracy in post ,
, Reconfiguring Ethiopia: The politics of authoritarian reform, pp.62-84, 2013.
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Neither revolutionary, nor democratic ,
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, Another EPRDF Guideline explained in more detail the EPRDF's strategy in developing its revolutionary programme. It aimed to control the media, all economic sectors and the entire political field in order to develop the country again after it had been destroyed by a long civil war. See Ethiopian Register, 'The EPRDF's organizational structure and operation: Lessons for the opposition, pp.16-19, 1997.
, See the EPRDF's 'Report by the General Council of the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front to the 7th EPRDF Congress, p.461, 2008.
René Lefort makes the same observation in rural areas where model farmers or vanguard farmers are being co-opted into local administrations and given the function of intermediaries in charge of diffusing the EPRDF's ideas and applying its policies. See René Lefort, p.97, 2011. ,
, A9-lefort/great-ethiopian-land-grab-feudalism-leninism-neo-liberalism-plus-%C3%A7-change>, 2012.
The theory and practice of Meles Zenawi ,
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, Industry and Urban Development and Package' (Government of Ethiopia, Ministry of Works and Urban Development, 2006.
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African development: Dead ends and new beginnings' (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, unpublished Master's dissertation, undated), 2018. ,