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The contested borderland economy along the Ethiopian Moyale town and its implications for sustainable local development

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  • Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas
  • Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
  • Randi Marie Dahl Haugland

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This paper analyses the contested borderland economy and its implications for sustainable local development in the context of competing actors by taking the Ethiopian Moyale town as a case. Philosophical, institutional and practical divergence between the state and local actors complicates the implication of border economies for sustainable local development. While the state builds on the detrimental notion, local actors construct on the asset discourse of the borderland economy for their development. Rather than approaching the borderland economy from a judgmental perspective (i.e., either an asset or detriment view) and through a single theoretical lens, we employed a critical and holistic lens. Accordingly, we found that state-local actors' contentions have resulted in the development of fused institutions which are better than state institutions in distributing benefits and rents from border economy to representatives of contending actors. However, such institutions are not developmental for they support the 'haves' than workers.

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  • Yetebarek Hizekeal Zekareas & Ongaye Oda Orkaydo & Randi Marie Dahl Haugland, 2021. "The contested borderland economy along the Ethiopian Moyale town and its implications for sustainable local development," International Journal of Critical Accounting, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 12(3), pages 187-205.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijcrac:v:12:y:2021:i:3:p:187-205
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