Ethiopia represents an excellent case study of recent industrial policy experimentation in Africa. The country is well known for its successful promotion of the cut-flower industry through business-government co-ordination. What is less known is that at nearly the same time it was also using...

For many white South Africans, black demands for redistribution conjure up images of a new South Africa with no future; a country in which the state arbitrarily redistributes proceeds, assets and jobs. At the other extreme are many black South Africans who imagine redistribution to be the key to...