IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/unu/wpaper/dp2001-66.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Building New States: Lessons from Eritrea

Author

Listed:
  • Göte Hansson

Abstract

With the Derg's overthrow in 1991, Eritrea embarked on the construction of a new state. New economic institutions were created, and considerable reform undertaken. Problems in co-ordinating reform and reconstruction were largely avoided, mainly because of the institutional 'clean slate' facing the country at independence and the high level of social solidarity and other social capital that characterize the country. A well-defined economic strategy, and careful use of aid, promised higher returns to investment (and fewer unsustainable projects) than found elsewhere in SSA.

Suggested Citation

  • Göte Hansson, 2001. "Building New States: Lessons from Eritrea," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2001-66, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:dp2001-66
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/dp2001-66.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tony Addison & Léonce Ndikumana, 2001. "Overcoming the Fiscal Crisis of the African State," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2001-12, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Tony Addison & Alemayehu Geda & Philippe Le Billon & S Mansoob Murshed, 2005. "Reconstructing and Reforming the Financial System in Conflict and 'Post-Conflict' Economies," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(4), pages 703-718.
    3. Prathivadi Bhayankaram Anand, 2005. "Getting Infrastructure Priorities Right in Post-Conflict Reconstruction," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2005-42, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    4. Yemane Desta, 2006. "Designing Anti-Corruption Strategies for Developing Countries," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 22(4), pages 421-449, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:dp2001-66. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Siméon Rapin (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/widerfi.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.