172
n e o l i b e r a l   af r i c a
bribery, 14
Britain, 15, 79; Conservative Party, 20, 
101; monetarism use, 87; 
neoliberalism practices, 116
Brohman, John, 22
budget deficits, IMF focus on, 85
Burkina Faso, 50, 116
capacity-building, 128; programmes, 
101, 115 
capital: accumulation, 139, 145; 
controls removal, 80; flight(s), 40
Chad, 48; –Cameroon oil pipeline, 10
Chamdoma, Eva, 134
‘champions’, neoliberal, 68, 116; 
clientilist, 141; within governments, 
113
‘change agents’, 113; ‘teams’, 68
Chile, ‘Chicago Boys’, 100
China: African investment, 14; 
emergence of, 145; FDI, 10
‘choiceless democracies’, 33
Chorev, N., 23
Chubais, Anatoly, 100
‘citizen-users’, 66
civil society, 91; organisations, 146
class, 1970s’ tensions, 79
clients and customers, language of, 111
‘cloistered’ neoliberal practice, Africa, 
116
Cold War, end, 47
colonialism, 14–15; African states, 11
Comaroff, Jean, 41
‘combined and uneven development’,  
6
commodities ‘boom’, price falls, 100, 
146
‘common sense’, 79; claim to, 31; 
political consolidation, 82
competition, notion of socially 
beneficial, 66
complaints processes, 104
comprehensive development 
frameworks, 45, 111
conceptual slogans, neoliberal, 34
concessional lending, conditional, 44
conditionality(ies), 8, 19, 42, 46–7, 130; 
‘democratic’, 48; disciplinary use, 
86; ‘displaced’, 44; ‘process’, 105
‘conduct’, 72–3, 98, 104; corrupt, 138; 
‘good’, 105, 121; neoliberal, 106; 
new forms of, 135
‘consensus’ agreements, 13
conspiracy theory, 28
continental–global interactions, 17
convergence, global logic of, 3
Cooper, Frederick, 9
copper, 10
corruption, 109, 139, 141; anti-, see 
above; focus on, 103; ‘islands of 
integrity’, 104; Lushoto, 136
cost–benefit analysis, 67
Country Policy Institutional 
Assessments, 86
Crawford, G., 50
credit: access to, 111; freezing, 110; line 
cutting, 23; -ratings agencies, 23; 
restricted, 146; -worthiness 
determination, 86
currency devaluations, 34, 46, 89–90; 
IMF focus on, 32–3, 85
Dahl, Robert, 52
Dar es Salaam, 126; workshops/
seminars profusion, 125
‘dark victories’, 81
De Soto, Hernando, 122–3
debt, external, 88; ad hoc reduction, 
41; bilateral write-offs, 40; 
distressed regions, 38; 1980s’ crisis, 
8; politics, 8; -to-export ratios, 8, 
43
decentralisation, neoliberal, 105, 109, 
126, 128, 130, 132, 135, 138, 143
Democratic Republic of Congo, 
plundering of, 10, 141
democratisation, 48; -aid tying, 50; 
elite weak commitments to, 51
depoliticisation, strategic aim, 24–5, 
30, 55, 106–8
‘development’: alternative(s), 148; as 
marketisation, 20; councillor/local 
‘advocates’, 131–5; discourse, 17, 79; 
‘golden’/‘social democratic’ era, 
92–4; management, 103; national 
statist, 46, 130; neoliberal 
ideological, 37, 82; repertoire of, 
78; practice, 69; sectoral 
monitored, 44; World Bank 
production of, 87
Dewey, John, 30–31, 70–5
‘dirtiness’, of neoliberal reform, 63–4
discipline, of populations, 24, 33