Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance

Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance provides a detailed examination of the domestic and international political dynamics that shaped Ethiopia's dam building, drawing on extensive primary research including more than a hundred interviews with politicians, technocrats, consultants, and donors.

Auteur

Tom Lavers is a Reader in Politics and Development at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute (GDI). He has been researching the politics and political economy of land, industrial policy, infrastructure, and social protection in Ethiopia since 2005. His publications include the 2023 monograph Ethiopia's 'Developmental State': Political Order and Distributive Crisis published by Cambridge University Press, as well as articles in Development and Change, Journal of Agrarian Change, and World Development amongst others.