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Conjuring ‘Win-World’ – Resilient Development Narratives in a Large-Scale Agro-Investment in Tanzania

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  • Linda Engström
  • Flora Hajdu

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Through a case study of a public-private partnership (PPP) for development in which the Swedish development agency Sida supported a Swedish company trying to implement a large-scale agro-investment in sugarcane in Tanzania, we unpack the underpinnings of what we call ‘win-world’, a resilient development narrative maintained by actors promoting the investment. Rich empirical descriptions show that this narrative was highly resilient to accumulated academic knowledge and current real-world problems. We found that the privatisation of development increased the resilience of the narrative to evidence of its own shortcomings.

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  • Linda Engström & Flora Hajdu, 2019. "Conjuring ‘Win-World’ – Resilient Development Narratives in a Large-Scale Agro-Investment in Tanzania," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(6), pages 1201-1220, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:55:y:2019:i:6:p:1201-1220
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1438599
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    1. Bélair, Joanny, 2021. "Farmland investments in Tanzania: The impact of protected domestic markets and patronage relations," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).
    2. Roos, Michael W. M. & Reccius, Matthias, 2021. "Narratives in economics," Ruhr Economic Papers 922, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    3. Michael Roos & Matthias Reccius, 2021. "Narratives in economics," Papers 2109.02331, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2022.

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