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Author : Malesela John Lamola
Publisher : Efsa Institute for Theological & Interdisciplinary Research
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070577478
Author : Mr.Saleh M. Nsouli
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589062627
Adopted in 2001, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) represents a new vision to place African countries on a path toward poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and full integration in the world economy. This conference volume includes papers selected from a high-level seminar in December 2002 held in Dakar, Senegal, organized by the IMF Institute in the context of the program of the Joint Africa Institute (JAI). The papers focus on the challenges confronting NEPAD in reducing poverty, promoting trade, attracting capital flows, and effecting institutional reforms.
Author : International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781589066359
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 : Yongzheng Yang,Mr.Robert Powell,Mr.Sanjeev Gupta
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1589065050
Over the next decade, African countries are expected to be the largest beneficiaries of increased donor aid, which is intended to improve their prospects for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This handbook will help these countries assess the macroeconomic implications of increased aid and respond to the associated policy challenges. The handbook is directed at policymakers, practicing economists in African countries, and the staffs of international financial institutions and donor agencies who participate in preparing medium-term strategies for African countries, including in the context of poverty reduction strategy papers. It provides five main guidelines for developing scaling-up scenarios to help countries identify important policy issues involved in using higher aid flows effectively: to absorb as much aid as possible, to boost growth in the short to medium term, to promote good governance and reduce corruption, to prepare an exit strategy should aid levels decrease, and to regularly reassess the policy mix.
Author : Gerry Helleiner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349244140
This book contains papers addressing the major problems and possible reforms in the international monetary and financial system from the perspective of developing countries. Among the issues addressed are global macroeconomic management, international liquidity, volatile private capital flows, structural adjustment, governance in the IMF and World Bank, the role of the regional development banks, and the potential for developing country cooperation.
Author : Mr.Shanaka J. Peiris,Mr.Jean A. P. Clément
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781589066779
Mozambique is an economic success story in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Its remarkable achievements offer valuable lessons to other low-income countries in a post-stabilization economic phase, including how they can efficiently manage a scaling up of foreign aid aimed at poverty reduction. Of special interest to other sub-Saharan countries are the book's discussions of Mozambique's progress toward consolidating macroeconomic and financial stability, and the challenges it faces in ensuring long-term sustainability, creating a virtuous cycle of natural resource use, and implementing second-generation structural reforms to sustain its growth. This book also provides a summary of the most recent research on issues related to post-stabilization economics in SSA.
Author : P. Streeten,M. Ul Haq,R. Jolly,Mahbub Ul Haq
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349239580
The vision of the founders of the United Nations, the World Bank and the IMF some fifty years ago contrasts sharply with the often weak and limited performance of the institutions they created. The 15 papers in this volume critically assess this record in order to set out proposals for strengthening and restructuring the institutions to meet the new challenges of the 21st century. The changes proposed emphasize human security rather than military security, poverty eradication, gender equity and new international mechanisms to offset growing global inequality.
Author : Doug Bandow,Ian Vásquez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822018781518
Perpetuating Poverty is an eye-opening review of the scandalous record of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Author : Mr.Kevin Joseph Carey,Mr.Sanjeev Gupta,Ms.Catherine A. Pattillo
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781589064942
Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has recently shown signs of improvement, but is still short of levels needed to attain the Millennium Development Goals. Economists have placed increasing emphasis on understanding the policies that promote sustained jumps in medium-term growth, and the paper applies this approach to African countries. The evidence presented finds an important growth-supporting role for particular kinds of institutions and policies, but also highlights aspects of growth that are still not well understood. The paper includes policy guidance for ensuring that the poor benefit from growth.
Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552502044
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 : Dambisa Moyo
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1429954256
In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse. In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined—and millions continue to suffer. Provocatively drawing a sharp contrast between African countries that have rejected the aid route and prospered and others that have become aid-dependent and seen poverty increase, Moyo illuminates the way in which overreliance on aid has trapped developing nations in a vicious circle of aid dependency, corruption, market distortion, and further poverty, leaving them with nothing but the "need" for more aid. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries that guarantees economic growth and a significant decline in poverty—without reliance on foreign aid or aid-related assistance. Dead Aid is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions.
Author : G. O. Nwankwo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112677708
Author : Mr.Toshihiro Ichida,Mr.Gary G. Moser
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451853602
This study confirms a strong and robust relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa. Employing a panel of 46 countries covering the period 1972-97, the analysis finds that a 10 percent increase in per capita GDP leads to a 1 percent increase in life expectancy, a 3-4 percent decline in infant mortality rates, and a 31⁄2-4 percent increase in the rate of gross primary school enrollment. The results are robust for high- and low-income, as well as fast- and slow-growth, countries. The study also finds that quality of growth, civil conflict, HIV/AIDs, civil and institutional freedom, and island economies are important control variables that help explain the variability of poverty across Africa. A country's latitude is not found to be a significant factor explaining life expectancy or infant mortality rates, though it is a significant factor explaining gross primary school enrollments.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-14
Category : Central African Republic
ISBN : 1451806663
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498333320
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.