Does Rationality Travel? Translations of a World Bank Model for Fair Oil Revenue Distribution in Chad

Abstract

This chapter takes up the example of a highly acclaimed, internationally devised model to promote development in a newly oil-exporting African country. International and Chadian observers have declared the Chadian model to be a spectacular failure. The chapter argues that its aims of preventing oil production from becoming a source of conflict in Chad and of distributing oil gains equitably for the benefit of the population may have worked as an idea in the Washington-based institution where the model was developed. It also worked, although differently than was planned, for the Chadian government. For the rural population, who (amongst others) were meant to benefit from the model, it has failed to bring about the promised development and infrastructural improvement. Scott Pegg, a Western observer of the scheme, attributes the failure of the model to its complexity, which overburdened Chadian development. Keywords: Chadian model; institutional development; Washington

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