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The rise and fall of the bureaucratic bourgeoisie: Public sector employees and economic privilege in postcolonial Kenya and Tanzania
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In 1961, Frantz Fanon scathingly characterised the emerging African elite as a bourgeoisie of the civil service. Many have since described Africa's public sector employees as a rentier class that grew disproportionately large in relation to the continent's underdeveloped private sector. Is this characterisation still accurate? Using educational data and household budget surveys from Kenya and Tanzania, this article situates public sector employees within their respective educational hierarchi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1002/jid.3470
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of International Development Journal website
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 607-635
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-03-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1099-1328
- ISSN:
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0954-1748
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1099933
- Local pid:
- pubs:1099933
- Deposit date:
- 2020-04-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Rebecca Simson
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 The Author. Journal of International Development published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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