Un entrepreneuriat local à l’ombre de la politique industrielle en Éthiopie

Abstract

This article provides a more expansive overview of the history of entrepreneurship in Ethiopia than what can be found in previous literature, which focuses primarily on the state’s industrial priorities. Framed within P. Evans’s (1995) typology of state roles in industrial transformation, it addresses the relative absence of literature on economic alliances between the Ethiopian state and local entrepreneurs. Drawing on original source material allows us to provide a description of a specific entrepreneurial group, that of foreign residents, and shows how they have been instrumental in the dynamics of local entrepreneurship, both commercial and industrial. These foreign residents acted under the economic protection of the state as an incubator for emerging technology and industrial orientation with three successive regimes.

Keywords

• state
• Ethiopia
• local entrepreneurship
• foreign residents
• history