Doing Business in Cameroon : An Anatomy of Economic Governance
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 59208134
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108684477
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108428996
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Doing Business in Cameroon builds on substantial periods of intensive fieldwork sustained over a ten-year period. This was put to the service of an analysis of business actors’ long-term trajectories, often obscured in one-off research efforts. In order to capture distinct sectoral logics as well as diversification strategies and complex interconnections, the research covers four different economic sectors (cattle trade, trucking, public contracting, and NGO work) that conventional monographs tend to treat separately. The book also supplements ethnographic materials with thorough archival documentation (from Cameroon’s national archives, repositories of historical periodicals, and numerous hard-to-access government agencies and departments).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- As stated in the book’s acknowledgements (p. x), materials referring to a 2004 meeting between cattle merchants and tax authorities, which are presented in chapter 3 (pp. 119-126), had been the main focus of two journal articles published prior to 2014 (Muñoz 2010 and 2011): Muñoz, J.M. 2010 “Business Visibility and Taxation in Northern Cameroon”, African Studies Review, 53 (2): 149-175 and Muñoz, J.M. 2011 “Talking Law in Times of Reform: Paradoxes of Legal Entitlement in Cameroon”, Law & Society Review, 45 (4): 893-922. Both articles were submitted to REF2014.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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