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    The Rise of the Economic Technocracy in Rwanda: A Case of a Bureaucratic Pocket of Effectiveness or State-building Prioritisation?

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    2019
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    Chemouni, Benjamin
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    The Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) is recognised as the most effective organisation in the Rwandan state. The objective of the paper is to understand the organisational and political factors influencing MINECOFIN’s performance since the genocide and link them to the wider conversation on the role of pockets of effectiveness (PoEs) in state-building in Africa. It argues that, because of the Rwandan political settlement and elite vulnerability, MINECOFIN is not a PoE but only a good performer in a generally well functioning state. The Ministry overperforms first because, unsurprisingly, the nature of its tasks is specific, requires little embeddedness and allows a great exposure to donors, making its mandate easier to deliver in comparison to other organisations. MINECOFIN also performs better than other state organisations because it is, more than others, at the frontline of the elite legitimation project, since it is the organisation through which resources are channelled, priorities decided, and developmental efforts coordinated. Given the rulers’ need for an effective state as a whole, MINECOFIN appears only as the lead climber in a wider dynamics of systematic state building.
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16098
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    Chemouni, B. (2019) The rise of the economic technocracy in Rwanda: a case of bureaucratic pocket of effectiveness or state-building prioritisation? Pockets of Effectiveness Working Paper No. 4. Manchester, UK: The University of Manchester
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    http://www.effective-states.org/wp-content/uploads/working_papers/final-pdfs/poe_wp_4_chemouni.pdf
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