Ethiopia’s dysfunctional developmental statism: It is not the model, fix the politics

Nolawi Melakedingel, Special to Addis Standard

The spectacular economic growth and overall development of South Asian countries was a source of envy since the 1980’s. Why it stayed an un-replicable and fragile industrialization model that was yet to prove its neo-liberal critiques has its roots in an aggressive state involvement despised by an assertive and well organized civil society and political thinkers who saw it as another unsustainable Chinese product.