Africa Beyond Adjustment
Author : Nguyuru Haruna Ibrahim Lipumba
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Nguyuru Haruna Ibrahim Lipumba
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Bade Onimode
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
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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 : Julius E. Nyang'oro
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 1992-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 027594221X
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 : Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Directorate General for International Cooperation. Project Group Africa
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Page : 37 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1990
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Author : Inter-Church Coalition on Africa
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1993
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Page : 573 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Laetitia Van Drunen
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Page : 573 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Africa
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Author : Nigerian Economic Society. Annual Conference
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Economic stabilization
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Author : Virginia Ann Perry
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 1997
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Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 155250204X
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.