Doing Business in Cameroon - José-María Muñoz

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Résumé :
Focusing on four distinct sectors (cattle trade, transport, public contracts and NGO work), Munoz combines an ethnographic study of business practices with a lucid analysis of policies and legal rules to provide an in-depth look at how businesses and state bureaucracies cope with unpredictability in times of crisis and reform.

Biographie:
Jos?-Mar?a Mu?oz is a lecturer of African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh. Mu?oz trained as a lawyer in Spain, his home country, before pursuing degrees in Social Anthropology at University College London and Northwestern University, Illinois. He held a postdoctoral fellowship with Emory University's Program in Development Studies before relocating to the UK.

Sommaire:
Acknowledgements; List of figures; Acronyms; Introduction: doing business in Cameroon; 1. Making a living in Ngaound?r?; 2. The ordering of public things; 3. 'Cattle saves the day'; 4. On and off the road; 5. Under 'the NGO label'; Conclusion: letting pass, letting go; Bibliography; Index.