Author : Alan Hirsch
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1552502155
Offers an insight into the circumstances under which the policies were developed, implemented and reviewed, as well as a study of the outcomes. This book addresses questions such as: How could an organisation with no previous experience of governing accomplish a peaceful transition to democracy? How did they do it and where are they going?
Author : Carol Lancaster
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780881320961
This study proposes a new initiative involving the cancellation of concessional rescheduling of public bilateral debt of reforming African countries through a new international mechanism that would replace existing ones such as the Paris Club and the World Bank Consultative Groups. Each of a series of Adjustment Review Consortia would bring together representatives of donor and creditor governments international aid and development agencies, and an African government to coordinate debt relief, aid, and reform initiatives. Properly implements, ARCs would contribute to building a system in which economic need and performance, not political favoritism, play the principal roles in how debt and external financing in general are managed.
Author : M. Anne Pitcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521449626
Argues that the interaction of formal institutions and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa.
Author : Obed O. Mailafia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134753233
This book explores the complex, post-colonial relationship between Europe and African states. Using new field work as well as existing material the author explores * the dynamics of diplomacy * the operating practices of EU agreements * responses to debt and structural adjustment
Author : Shinichi Takeuchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2021-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811647259
This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.
Author : Jennifer A. Widner
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Aims to establish the nature of the relationship between the economic challenges of the 1980s and the steps toward greater political openness taken by governments at the end of that decade.
Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,23 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.
Author : Nicolas Van de Walle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2001-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521008365
This Book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures as is often argued. Far from being prevented from undertaking reforms by societal interest and pressure groups, clientelism within the state elite, ideological factors and low state capacity have resulted in some limited reform, but much prevarication and manipulation of the reform process, by governments which do not really believe that reform will be effective.
Author : Shantayanan Devarajan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821346693
Finally, when the country enters the second generation of reforms, such as public sector institutional reform, short-term, conditionality-based aid can once again be harmful - by reducing ownership, participation, and sustainability of the reform process."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Peter D. Little
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253010797
What are the local effects of major economic and political reforms in Africa? How have globalized pro-market and pro-democracy reforms impacted local economics and communities? Examining case studies from The Gambia, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Peter D. Little shows how rural farmers and others respond to complex agendas of governments, development agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The book explores the contradictions between what policy reforms were supposed to do and what actually happened in local communities. Little's vision of development challenges common narratives of African poverty, dependency, and environmental degradation and suggests that sustainable development in Africa can best be achieved by strengthening local livelihoods, markets, and institutions. --From publisher's description.
