ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how international donor organisations aim to provide various types of support for domestic productive entrepreneurs in fragile and post-conflict states and explores the underlying assumptions and institutional factors that this support is based on. It focuses on the private-sector investment 'plus' grant for international firms that want to establish innovative joint ventures in fragile or conflict-affected areas. The chapter explores what this experience tells us about the donor's policy, attitudes and dilemmas with regard to private-sector development. It shows, the ways in which business regulations are enforced, informal institutional arrangements penetrate the formal regulatory regimes and access to economic opportunity is negotiated through local power configurations, all contribute to determining the context for successful domestic business. The chapter also focuses on the role of donor organisations in shaping the modalities of real economic governance in South Sudan, meaning the way donor organisations actually engage/intervene in the everyday regulatory practices of economic activity.
