Book Description
This booklet contains the Overview as well as a list of contents from the forthcoming book Africa's Infrastructure: A time for Transformation.
Author : Vivien Foster
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This booklet contains the Overview as well as a list of contents from the forthcoming book Africa's Infrastructure: A time for Transformation.
Author : Bade Onimode
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
V. 1. The economic impact -- v. 2. The social and political impact.
Author : World Bank
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
3. Investing in people.
Author : Punam Chuhan-Pole
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821387456
Takes an in-depth look at twenty-six economic and social development successes in Sub-Saharan African countries, and addresses how these countries have overcome major developmental challenges.
Author : Pade Badru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429853513
Published in 1998, this book reviews two of the World Bank's agricultural development projects in southeast Nigeria, and concludes that the objectives of these projects - which include reducing rural poverty and developing indigenous capacity for rural development - have not been fully realized. This book concludes that what these projects have achieved in the past, was the increasing integration of the peasant's political economy into the world's capitalist market with negative consequences. For example, the projects emphasis on export crop production, as opposed to food production, simply led to a diminishing capability among peasant farmers especially in the project areas, to produce food for themselves - while at the same time, reporting increased productivity in export-related production. The end result is widespread poverty amongst the poorest strata of peasant farmers participating in the program. In addition, the book looks at the Bank's structural adjustment programme, which in fact has the potential to reduce whatever benefits its agricultural programs might bring about for peasant producers.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 149833332X
In March 2006, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the President of the World Bank commissioned the External Review Committee on IMF-World Bank Collaboration to look at the status of institutional collaboration and provide suggestions for improvement. The Committee’s report, released in February 2007, called for the strengthening of the culture of collaboration in the two institutions, and made a number of specific proposals in that direction. The Joint Management Action Plan (JMAP) was prepared against this background, and the actions agreed between Bank and Fund managements in the JMAP are scheduled to be presented in informal Board meetings in early October. The JMAP will be launched immediately after the Annual Meetings. The goal is for most new systems to be operational in time for the preparation of FY09 budgets.
Author : International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2007-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1589066359
This independent evaluation of the IMF’s role and performance in the determination and use of aid to low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa is presented at a ground-level view. Country performance has improved in many sub-Saharan Africa countries over the period, and the report details the role of the IMF’s programs, as well as perceptions of that role. The report is an important contribution to following through on the IMF’s commitment to its Poverty Reduction Strategy and makes three main recommendations for improving the coherence—actual and perceived—of the IMF’s policies and actions relating to aid to sub-Saharan Africa going forward.
Author : William Easterly
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Banco Mundial
ISBN : 0202080110
There is some evidence that IMF and World Bank adjustment lending smooths consumption for the poor, reducing the rise in poverty for any given contraction of the economy but also reducing the fall in poverty for any given expansion. Adjustment lending plays a similar role as inequality, reducing poverty's sensitivity to the economy's aggregate growth rate.
Author : Richard Dowden
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0786741422
After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change as he spins tales of cults and commerce in Senegal and traditional spirituality in Sierra Leone; analyzes the impact of oil and the internet on Nigeria and aid on Sudan; and examines what has gone so badly wrong in Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo. Dowden's master work is an attempt to explain why Africa is the way it is, and enables its readers to see and understand this miraculous continent as a place of inspiration and tremendous humanity.
Author : Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351809571
This title was first published in 2001: Bringing together geographers, planners, political scientists, economists, rural development specialists, bankers, public administrators and other development experts, this volume questions the benefits of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs). It critically assesses the impact of SAPs from a wider perspective than a purely economic one, highlighting concerns about impacts of adjustments on the more vulnerable elements of society such as social welfare, the environment, labour, gender and agriculture. Revealing both the costs and benefits of the economic restructuring programme, the book also suggests alternatives to current development models, and how SAPs can be made more sustainable. An original and comprehensive addition to the collections of both students and practitioners of development.