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Author: Julius E. Nyang'oro Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
This book brings into sharp focus the problems of development under conditions of structural adjustment and their relation to democratic change in Africa. Contributors to this volume are interested in specific countries such as Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, etc., but do bring to bear a rigorous comparative method which uses a political economy approach to the study of democracy, gender, industrialization, agriculture and the state. Its comparative approach in revisionist political economy allows for issues such as the new international division of labor to become central to the analysis of the relationship between developed and underdeveloped countries. The state-centric approach, although useful, may have missed important undercurrents in civil society. An analysis of development through the state's lenses has predominated the study of Africa. The approach by contributors in this volume is equally interested in the state but is also concerned with non-state actors. This dynamic approach characterizes few texts on Africa. This work should attract those who are concerned with African development, specifically, and international political economy in general.
Author: Julius E. Nyang'oro Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
This book brings into sharp focus the problems of development under conditions of structural adjustment and their relation to democratic change in Africa. Contributors to this volume are interested in specific countries such as Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, etc., but do bring to bear a rigorous comparative method which uses a political economy approach to the study of democracy, gender, industrialization, agriculture and the state. Its comparative approach in revisionist political economy allows for issues such as the new international division of labor to become central to the analysis of the relationship between developed and underdeveloped countries. The state-centric approach, although useful, may have missed important undercurrents in civil society. An analysis of development through the state's lenses has predominated the study of Africa. The approach by contributors in this volume is equally interested in the state but is also concerned with non-state actors. This dynamic approach characterizes few texts on Africa. This work should attract those who are concerned with African development, specifically, and international political economy in general.
Author: Rolph van der Hoeven Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers ISBN: Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan Languages : en Pages : 300
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Cloth Edition. Much has been learned about the need to modify structural adjustment policies and to apply them in appropriate ways. This book brings together the theory of researchers and the practical experience of policymakers.
Author: Nicolas Van de Walle Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403981280 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 310
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As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.' This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role of governance in African development. The goal of the book is to move beyond the status quo debates about 'structural adjustment' and to look at all the public and civic institutions which are likely to play a critical role if Africa is to overcome its economic crisis.
Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire Publisher: IDRC ISBN: 155250204X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Author: Kidane Mengisteab Publisher: Zed Books ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Have structural adjustment programmes in Africa largely failed? Ought the World Bank and the IMF to be paying more attention to the particular circumstances of individual countries and to the alternative policies being proposed by the Africans? The contributors to this volume assert both positions. Case studies of education, health, public services and import-export performance demonstrate the frequent lack of success of structural adjustment. These are followed by alternative approaches to overcoming Africa's economic and human crises, including the importance of democracy in securing responsiveness of state policy to public needs, the structural advantages of regional integration, sustainable development strategies that build on the continent's resource base, and a new partnership between state and market.
Author: Bade Onimode Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 196
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Africa's societies and their economies are in crisis with mounting external debts and falling incomes leading to collapsing infrastructure, more widespread disease, illiteracy, malnourishment adn social conflict. The text argues that the problenms are not insuperable, but that whereas their causes are largely external, the only long-term solutions rest in African hands. The author shows that the adjustment programmes imposed by the World Bank and the IMF on many African countries have compounded the disastrous impact that foreign debt, trade restrictions and falling export prices have had. With the threats of proposed changes in the structure of world trade, they ammount to the virtual recolonization of much of the continent and offer its people little hope. To the contrary real development will only be achieved through long-term strategies appropriate to African circumstances, which return control of its abundant resources to Africans themselves and which ensure greater democracy and accountability in African political structures. The author is a member of the Economic Commission for Africa and Chair of the Institute for African Affairs.
Author: Kempe Ronald Hope Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429686757 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 350
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First published in 1997, this volume is intended to make a contribution to both the literature and the contentious debate on the relationship between structural adjustment and reconstruction and development in Africa, as seen from the multidisciplinary perspective of academics and practitioners working in Africa on African development problems and issues. The implementation of structural adjustment in Africa has spawned a considerable, and still on-going, debate with vociferous advocates on both sides of the issue, particularly with respect to the efficacy of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) as an antidote to Africa’s development crisis. This book contributes to that debate with a rich mixture of analytical views and ideas covering a wide range of countries and sectors on the role and impact of structural adjustment programmes on the process of reconstruction and development in Africa.
Author: Finn Tarp Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415081807 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 212
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The past decade has been disastrous for Africa. Different solutions have been proposed and implemented to encourage stabilization and structural adjustment. This book looks beyond individual programmes to assess the relevance of the macroeconomic theory and models that underlie them.
Author: Julius E. Nyang'oro
Author: Julius E. Nyang'oro
Author: Rolph van der Hoeven
Author: Nicolas Van de Walle
Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire
Author: Nguyuru Haruna Ibrahim Lipumba
Author: Kidane Mengisteab
Author: Bade Onimode
Author: Nicolas Van de Walle
Author: Kempe Ronald Hope
Author: Finn Tarp