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15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group

Imperial extraction and development’s ‘private sector turn’

Abstract

This chapter examines two UK-based development bodies, the Crown Agents and the CDC Group, focusing on moments of controversy surrounding these organisations’ impacts on public finances, in the UK and in its former colonies. It highlights the role these ‘development’ organisations played in managing colonial currencies and supply chains to ensure the expansion of Britain’s nascent welfare state in the immediate post-war period. Both organisations have undergone significant restructuring and repositioning since the formal end of empire, and now take centre stage in the retro-liberal aid regime under which the state exists to sponsor and facilitate the private sector. Donor states are increasingly entangled with private, for-profit agencies through a range of state–capital hybrids that may benefit donor states in the Global North and development professionals more than they do ‘beneficiaries’ in the Global South. This retro-liberal aid regime is also a ‘re-colonial’ one: development bodies established during the colonial period find success through new arrangements, but much like their colonial antecedents, do so as bearers of expertise that can address development challenges while demonstrating ‘value for money’ for the UK taxpayer and chipping away at the tax base in ‘beneficiary’ countries. The chapter thus foregrounds the colonial durabilities which are so deeply embedded within aid flows, government by contract, and even ‘value for money’ models of accountability that structure the retro-liberal aid regime.

Abstract

This chapter examines two UK-based development bodies, the Crown Agents and the CDC Group, focusing on moments of controversy surrounding these organisations’ impacts on public finances, in the UK and in its former colonies. It highlights the role these ‘development’ organisations played in managing colonial currencies and supply chains to ensure the expansion of Britain’s nascent welfare state in the immediate post-war period. Both organisations have undergone significant restructuring and repositioning since the formal end of empire, and now take centre stage in the retro-liberal aid regime under which the state exists to sponsor and facilitate the private sector. Donor states are increasingly entangled with private, for-profit agencies through a range of state–capital hybrids that may benefit donor states in the Global North and development professionals more than they do ‘beneficiaries’ in the Global South. This retro-liberal aid regime is also a ‘re-colonial’ one: development bodies established during the colonial period find success through new arrangements, but much like their colonial antecedents, do so as bearers of expertise that can address development challenges while demonstrating ‘value for money’ for the UK taxpayer and chipping away at the tax base in ‘beneficiary’ countries. The chapter thus foregrounds the colonial durabilities which are so deeply embedded within aid flows, government by contract, and even ‘value for money’ models of accountability that structure the retro-liberal aid regime.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures vii
  4. List of tables x
  5. Notes on contributors xi
  6. Preface xiv
  7. Acknowledgements xix
  8. Introduction 1
  9. Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues
  10. 1 The great gage 19
  11. 2 The cost of thrift 37
  12. 3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism 57
  13. 4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company 79
  14. 5 Internal inequalities 98
  15. Part II: Taxation and welfare
  16. 6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state 121
  17. 7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire 138
  18. 8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland 157
  19. 9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation 177
  20. 10 Imperial revenue and national welfare 198
  21. Part III: Post-colonial legacies
  22. 11 Making investor states 219
  23. 12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya 240
  24. 13 From capitation taxes to tax havens 259
  25. 14 Imperial extraction and ‘tax havens’ 280
  26. 15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group 299
  27. Afterword 319
  28. Index 329
Imperial Inequalities
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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526166159.00026

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of figures vii
  4. List of tables x
  5. Notes on contributors xi
  6. Preface xiv
  7. Acknowledgements xix
  8. Introduction 1
  9. Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues
  10. 1 The great gage 19
  11. 2 The cost of thrift 37
  12. 3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism 57
  13. 4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company 79
  14. 5 Internal inequalities 98
  15. Part II: Taxation and welfare
  16. 6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state 121
  17. 7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire 138
  18. 8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland 157
  19. 9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation 177
  20. 10 Imperial revenue and national welfare 198
  21. Part III: Post-colonial legacies
  22. 11 Making investor states 219
  23. 12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya 240
  24. 13 From capitation taxes to tax havens 259
  25. 14 Imperial extraction and ‘tax havens’ 280
  26. 15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group 299
  27. Afterword 319
  28. Index 329
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