Download or read book Africa s Adjustment and Growth in the 1980s written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report offers new perspectives on sub-Saharan Africa's economic experience in the 1980s. That experience is often perceived as one of crisis and decline caused largely by hostile external factors. By putting Africa's extraordinary difficulties in the 1980s in a longer-term and global perspective, the report suggests that external factors may have been less hostile than supposed and less culpable in explaining the crisis. Moreover, the report shows emerging signs of economic improvement since the mid-1980s. This different view of the 1980s puts Africa's future in a fresh perspective - with a brighter prospect of recovery and growth. The report suggests that programs of economic reform and adjustment have helped African countries begin to improve their economic performance. Between 1983 and 1988, over half the countries of the region began, one after the other, to initiate policy reforms to favor increased efficiency in the use of scarce resources and to strengthen their competitiveness. This wave of reform arose largely from the crisis facing Africa. But an important feature of the movement toward policy reform and orderly structural adjustment is that Africans accepted the principal responsibility for their economic decisions and destiny.
Download or read book Africa s Recovery in the 1990s written by Henning Pieper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social implications, this book argues that several orthodox adjustment policies are still incongruent with long-term development in Africa. It goes on to discuss a development strategy which could lead to a much awaited economic recovery and improvement in social conditions in Africa in the 1990s drawing its conclusions from a general theoretical discussion and national case-studies.
Download or read book Is Adjustment Conducive to Long term Development written by Giovanni Andrea Cornia and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Continent Our Future written by P. Thandika Mkandawire and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Crisis Adjustment and Growth in Uganda written by Arne Bigsten and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uganda in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of Africa's sadder economic stories. Emerging from civil war, it had to embark on reform in the early to mid 1980s from a position of severe political weakness. In this study, the effects of economic policy at the aggregate level are discussed in detail, but snapshot empirical analyses of responses at the household level, both urban and rural are also presented. Uganda was for many years considered to be Africa's worst case, its recent recovery thus provides hope for similar countries in the region.
Download or read book African Voices on Structural Adjustment written by Codesria and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Voices on Structural Adjustment presents 14 in-depth studies on the history and future of structural adjustment in Africa. Each study appraises the performance of structural adjustment policies (SAPs) with respect to a particular sector or issue. Each evaluates the compatibility of SAPs with the requirements for long-term development in Africa. And, most importantly, each presents a truly African perspective. The contributors represent an outstanding collection of leading African economists and development experts. This volume is intended as a companion to Our Continent, Our Future. It will appeal to students, professors, academics, and researchers in development, economics, and African studies; professionals in donor organizations around the world; and economic policymakers in both the governmental and non-governmental sectors
Download or read book Economic Growth and Development in Africa written by Horman Chitonge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Africa has undergone the longest period of sustained economic growth in the continent’s history, drawing the attention of the international media and academics alike. This book analyses the Africa Rising narrative from multidisciplinary perspectives, offering a critical assessment of the explanations given for the poor economic growth and development performance in Africa prior to the millennium and the dramatic shift towards the new Africa. Bringing in perspectives from African intellectuals and scholars, many of whom have previously been overlooked in this debate, the book examines the construction of Africa’s economic growth and development portraits over the years. It looks at two institutions that play a vital role in African development, providing a detailed explanation of how the World Bank and the IMF have interpreted and dealt with the African challenges and experiences. The insightful analysis reveals that if Africa is rising, only 20-30 per cent of Africans are aboard the rising ship, and the main challenge facing the continent today is to bring on board the majority of Africans who have been excluded from growth. This book makes the complex, and sometimes confusing debates on Africa’s economic growth experience more accessible to a wide range of readers interested in the Africa story. It is essential reading for students and researchers in African Studies, and will be of great interest to scholars in Development Studies, Political Economy, and Development Economics.
Download or read book Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa written by Jeremiah I. Dibua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria and its development trajectory since it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent. He explores various theoretical and empirical issues involved in understanding the crisis, including state, class, gender and culture, often neglected in analysis, from an interdisciplinary, radical political economy perspective. This is the first book to adopt such an approach and to develop a new framework for analyzing Nigeria's and Africa's development crisis. It will influence the debate on the development dilemma of African and Third World societies and will be of interest to scholars and students of race and ethnicity, modern African history, class analysis, gender studies, and development studies.
Download or read book Policies for African Development written by I. G. Patel and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite economic hardships during the past 20 years, Africa has recently enjoyed positive real economic growth, transformed its economic structures and systems, and improved living standards. Much of this owes to the determined pursuit of growth-oriented adjustment efforts, with IMF support, by nearly 30 African countries. Edited by I.G. Patel, this volume discusses progress made by Africa in the 1980s and prospects and needs for continued development in the 1990s.
Download or read book The Crumbling Fa ade of African Debt Negotiations written by Matthew Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa's debt negotiations in the 1980s. It provides a framework for assessing the major types of debt negotiation, showing that faulty procedure made agreements vulnerable to failure, so that nobody was winning.
Download or read book Africa s Choices written by Michael Barratt Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms. It is designed to examine the actual viability of the World Bank's structural adjustment strategies for Africa, all of which were designed to encourage export-led growth.
Download or read book Africa in the Seventies and Eighties written by Frederic S. Arkhurst and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Politics in Comparative Perspective written by Goran Hyden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated in the field. Goran Hyden discusses how research on African politics relates to the study of politics in other regions and mainstream theories in comparative politics. He focuses on such key issues as why politics trumps economics, rule is personal, state is weak and policies are made with a communal rather than an individual lens. The book also discusses why in the light of these conditions agriculture is problematic, gender contested, ethnicity manipulated and relations with Western powers a matter of defiance.
Download or read book Has Recovery Begun written by Paul Mosley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternative Development Strategies in SubSaharan Africa written by Frances Stewart and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank and the IMF dominate policy-making in Africa today. This book considers the consistency between their adjustment policies and long-run development needs, with an analysis of country experience. An alternative development strategy is proposed.
Download or read book Europe and Economic Reform in Africa written by Obed O. Mailafia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book World Bank Adjustment Lending and Economic Performance in Sub Saharan Africa in the 1980s written by Ibrahim Elbadawi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
