Rethinking business reforms in post-conflict settings: the case of Sierra Leone

IF 1.1 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/14678802.2021.1888501
Kazushige Kobayashi, Herbert M’cleod
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ABSTRACT The literature on ‘conflict-sensitive’ business practices has burgeoned in recent years. Yet there remains a critical knowledge gap on the value of incorporating ‘conflict-sensitivity’ systematically to business environment reforms (BER) advanced by the public sector and its international partners. Wars and protracted conflicts reshape market environments in deeply distortive ways. The resulting transformation often enlarges the informal sector at the expense of formal state institutions, while it also reinforces high dependence on foreign aid and investments. Simultaneously, policy communication channels also become disrupted and unreliable. The existing BER literature remains generally insensitive to these peculiarities. Drawing on a case study of Sierra Leone, this article explores the implications of these omissions and shows that BER may even bring about adverse effects when the peculiarities of these conflict-generated market distortions are neglected. In order to avoid negative repercussions, conflict-sensitive BER needs to take into account the multiplicity of business environments and the heterogeneity of business actors operating within conflict-affected nations.
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反思冲突后环境下的商业改革:以塞拉利昂为例
近年来,关于“冲突敏感”商业实践的文献如雨后春笋般涌现。然而,在将“冲突敏感性”系统地纳入公共部门及其国际合作伙伴推进的商业环境改革(BER)的价值方面,仍然存在重大的知识差距。战争和长期冲突以严重扭曲的方式重塑市场环境。由此产生的转变往往以牺牲正式的国家机构为代价扩大了非正式部门,同时也加强了对外国援助和投资的高度依赖。同时,政策沟通渠道也变得中断和不可靠。现有的BER文献通常对这些特性不敏感。通过对塞拉利昂的案例研究,本文探讨了这些遗漏的含义,并表明,如果忽视这些冲突产生的市场扭曲的特性,经济效益甚至可能带来不利影响。为了避免负面影响,对冲突敏感的经济效益需要考虑到商业环境的多样性和在受冲突影响的国家内经营的商业行为者的异质性。
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