The Politics Of Africa S Economic Recovery

Author : Richard Sandbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521425638

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The Politics of Africa's Economic Recovery by Richard Sandbrook Pdf

The waning of the Cold War means that major political powers no longer feel compelled to support African authoritarianism. Revised official consensus holds that, in Africa as elsewhere, political reform must accompany economic adjustment. According to this view, African recovery requires a reduction in the size and economic role of monopolistic and inefficient states, and their transformation into accountable liberal democracies. Is this a desirable and practicable political programme? Certainly, all over Africa the number of liberal democracies is growing. But can they survive and are they compatible with renewed economic growth? Richard Sandbrook answers these questions, and assesses the feasibility of the new political programme in reinforcing Africa's economic recovery. He argues that the programme has merit in the short term, but, in the longer term, a more self-reliant, state-directed approach should be adopted to ensure prosperity and durable democracy in the region.

Author : Richard Sandbrook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1405761638

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“The” Politics of Africa's Economic Recovery by Richard Sandbrook Pdf

Author : Benno J. Ndulu,Nicolas Van De Walle,Simon Appleton
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412816696

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Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal by Benno J. Ndulu,Nicolas Van De Walle,Simon Appleton Pdf

In Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal, ten experts from Africa, Europe, and the United States look beyond structural adjustment and identify the strategic elements that are needed to engineer Africa's economic recovery in the coming years. Starting from the considerable degree of consensus among policymakers and scholars about what ails African economies, the authors analyze the key choices that need to be made in the critical areas of agriculture, trade and industry, state capacity, and the social sectors. The authors consider these strategic priorities in the extremely fragile environment of democratic rule in many countries of the region, and they stress the long overdue need to focus directly on the political implications of economic policy choices.

Author : Adebayo Adedeji,Patrick Bugembe,O. Teriba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135185015

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The Challenge of African Economic Recovery and Development by Adebayo Adedeji,Patrick Bugembe,O. Teriba Pdf

A special session of the UN General Assembly was held in Abuja, the new Nigerian capital in May 1988. This volume reproduces the major papers, lines of discussion and conclusions of the conference.

Author : V. Makhan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781403920218

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Economic Recovery in Africa by V. Makhan Pdf

African countries have experienced modest economic recovery during the 1990s. But these countries are caught in a vicious circle in which the existing economic structure cannot generate enough savings and export earnings needed to finance their development and mount a sustained assault on widespread poverty. Yet foreign aid has been cut back sharply and the continent receives only a trickle of foreign investment flows. New policy regimes are now in place, creating the right environment for external financing to make a major difference. Development finance is one of the foremost challenges facing African countries and the international community in the new century.

Author : Henning Pieper,Thandika Mkandawire,Rolph Van der Hoeven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349223442

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Africa’s Recovery in the 1990s by Henning Pieper,Thandika Mkandawire,Rolph Van der Hoeven Pdf

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.

Author : B. J. Ndulu,Nicolas Van de Walle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1560002808

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Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal by B. J. Ndulu,Nicolas Van de Walle Pdf

In Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal, ten experts from Africa, Europe, and the United States look beyond structural adjustment and identify the strategic elements that are needed to engineer Africa's economic recovery in the coming years. Starting from the considerable degree of consensus among policymakers and scholars about what ails African economies, the authors analyze the key choices that need to be made in the critical areas of agriculture, trade and industry, state capacity, and the social sectors. The authors consider these strategic priorities in the extremely fragile environment of democratic rule in many countries of the region, and they stress the long overdue need to focus directly on the political implications of economic policy choices.

Author : Lutz Lindenau
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783638230384

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Neoliberal Policies as a path towards economic recovery in Sub Saharan African Countries ? by Lutz Lindenau Pdf

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 8,0 von max 10, University of Amsterdam (FMG), language: English, abstract: As a participant of the course ‘Abandoning Development: Africa and the Contemporary Economic International Political-Economic System I am asked to write a final paper about an issue that was dealt with in the course and which is also based on the literature, that was provided. Since I am a Political Science student, who specialized in International Relations, I deliberately chose the course mentioned above to learn about the global economicpolitical system and its impact on whole regions. The case of Africa, in particular of Sub Saharan Africa, provides the participant with some understanding of the relationship between the developed and the developing countries, it’s inequalities, dependencies and perspectives, that I came across in other subjects like International relations, International Political Economy, the Political economy of the Middle East, etc. In that sense I feel that this case of an entire unprivileged region, like Sub Sahara Africa, fits into that context which I have already studied. At the international level, the fate of Sub Saharan African countries is highly relevant not just for its 45 countries hosting 500 million people. The De-humanization of Africa, as Manuel Castells refers to, goes in line with the rise of information/global capitalism by the beginning of seventies in the last century. Consequently many of its states disintegrated, societies collapsed, causing famine, epidemics, civil war, and social/political chaos. If one perceives these deteriorating developments as structurally conditioned then one can easily see the link to the global economic system and imagine the consequences, leading to several scenarios that the global community will have to deal with. But rather than developing these scenarios, this paper deals with the issue, whether recent policies and tools to ameliorate the economic situation of many African countries are suitable and eventually led to improvement in economic and social terms. Since the early eighties neoliberal policies were introduced by US-president Reagan and the UK-Prime minister Margaret Thatcher. [...]

Author : Richard Sandbrook
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110195075

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Closing the Circle by Richard Sandbrook Pdf

It is a truism that many African countries face a three-pronged tribulation--political tyranny; failed capitalist development; and violent domestic conflict. The relationship between effective democratic institutions, successful development and civil peace is less clear. This book analyzes the experience with democratization of a carefully selected sample of countries: Ghana, Mali, and Niger in West Africa; Zambia, Tanzania, and Madagascar in East Africa; and Sudan.

Author : Philip Ndegwa,Reginald Herbold Green
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9966468471

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Africa to 2000 and Beyond by Philip Ndegwa,Reginald Herbold Green Pdf

Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Publisher : Codesria
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070565127

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Between Liberalisation and Oppression by P. Thandika Mkandawire,Adebayo O. Olukoshi Pdf

No one can fail to be aware of the incredible impact that the IMF and the World Bank have had on Africa. Their structural adjustment programmes were deliberately designed to shock African economies into free market reform and ensuing stability. But when `getting the prices right' first swamped the World Bank's African economic plans in the early 1980s, few bothered to analyse the politics of a reform package whose immediate impact was violent and unsettling. While Africa has come a long way since then, the goal of market reform must be as important as the task of understanding the politics of unleashing the forces of the market. Not least, is the question of democratisation, which the Bank itself now attempts to force through with loan conditions. This book is the culmination of intense debate by African authors across the continent. Three sections make up a comprehensive analysis of adjustment regimes, their perspectives and the political context in which they have survived, or not. Country case studies in both anglophone and francophone Africa round up the analysis.

Author : Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789988860257

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Africa: Beyond Recovery by Thandika Mkandawire Pdf

Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africas attempts at growth and development since the independence era, her attempts at recovery from a string of serious socio-political set-backs, and advocates for the role of universities as essential agents in the drive to sustained development.

Author : Mthuli Ncube,Charles Lufumpa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317634546

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The Emerging Middle Class in Africa by Mthuli Ncube,Charles Lufumpa Pdf

The emergence of the African middle class as a driver of Africa’s economic growth stands out as an important milestone in Africa’s contemporary economic history. This growth, though uneven, is a source of hope for Africa, but also a signal to the rest of the world on the prospects for economic recovery and renewal, particularly because it has been steady despite the global downturn. The Emerging Middle Class in Africa analyses specific aspects of the lives of the middle class in Africa. It looks at how people become and remain in the middle class through a series of thematic chapters. It examines how behaviour changes in the process, in terms of consumption patterns and spending on health and education. A further dimension of this analysis is how class impacts on gender relations and whether women are able to reap the same benefits of social advancement available to men. Africa is a continent of such scale and diversity that experiences across countries vary widely. The book thus captures the common patterns across the continent. This text is primarily aimed at Africanist researchers, policy makers, development practitioners, and bilateral and multilateral institutions, as well as students of African studies, political science, political economy, development studies, and development economics.

Author : Aguibou Y. Yansané
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019183081

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Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa by Aguibou Y. Yansané Pdf

Nine world-class experts on the African economy share their knowledge regarding the potential for real improvement and growth in food production and the development of grassroots economies that will benefit citizens as well as governments. Economic models that assume good incentives, infrastructure, entrepreneurial skills, and a level trading field cannot be invoked. Structural adjustment in African countries has led to unintended consequences because the common people and the small farmers have not been consulted. Domestic food production, the crux of Africa's economic problem, has been downgraded because of the emphasis on export crops. To develop self-sufficiency and food security, African nations must mobilize domestic resources, improve the human resource capacity, and strengthen their scientific and technological bases. They must also cooperate in integration schemes rather than compete for the available Western aid.

Author : James Pickett,Hans Singer
Publisher : Routledge Library Editions: De
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415851718

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Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa by James Pickett,Hans Singer Pdf

First published in 1990, this volume considers the question: is there any hope for economic recovery in Africa? Written by a team of leading development economists, the book takes a close look at the economic decline of Sub-Saharan Africa and provides a set of guidelines for promoting economic recovery. Stressing the need for greater co-operation between African states, the contributors outline the economic and social policies required to put this crisis-torn region back on the road to sustained development.