Beyond structural adjustment and economic recovery
Title | Beyond structural adjustment and economic recovery PDF eBook |
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Pages | 11 |
Release | 1998 |
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Beyond Structural Adjustment in Africa
Title | Beyond Structural Adjustment in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Julius E. Nyang'oro |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1992-06-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This book brings into sharp focus the problems of development under conditions of structural adjustment and their relation to democratic change in Africa. Contributors to this volume are interested in specific countries such as Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, etc., but do bring to bear a rigorous comparative method which uses a political economy approach to the study of democracy, gender, industrialization, agriculture and the state. Its comparative approach in revisionist political economy allows for issues such as the new international division of labor to become central to the analysis of the relationship between developed and underdeveloped countries. The state-centric approach, although useful, may have missed important undercurrents in civil society. An analysis of development through the state's lenses has predominated the study of Africa. The approach by contributors in this volume is equally interested in the state but is also concerned with non-state actors. This dynamic approach characterizes few texts on Africa. This work should attract those who are concerned with African development, specifically, and international political economy in general.
Beyond Structural Adjustment Program in Tanzania
Title | Beyond Structural Adjustment Program in Tanzania PDF eBook |
Author | Lucian A. Msambichaka |
Publisher | Economic Research Bureau University of Dar Es Salaam |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Structural adjustment (Economic policy |
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This book deals with the success, failures and future prospects of the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in Tanzania. It assesses the performance of the economic reform programme in the main sectors of the economy, i.e. agriculture, industry and trade, public and private sector, transport, finance, social sectors and the environment. The book is an outcome of a workshop held in Dar es Salaam/Tanzania in August 1995. (DÜI-Hff).
Structural Adjustment
Title | Structural Adjustment PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Brown |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1135099529 |
Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts examines the problems associated with Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and reveals the damaging impacts they can have. The book looks at how the debt crisis of the 1970's forced developing countries to seek external help and then reviews what constitutes as a standard adjustment programme, detailing the political, economic, social and environmental impacts of SAPs. The final section draws together theories and political responses and presents a case for alternatives to the programmes.
Our Continent, Our Future
Title | Our Continent, Our Future PDF eBook |
Author | P. Thandika Mkandawire |
Publisher | IDRC |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | 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.
Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal
Title | Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal PDF eBook |
Author | Benno J. Ndulu |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Pages | 260 |
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Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781412816694 |
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.
Beyond Structural Adjustment
Title | Beyond Structural Adjustment PDF eBook |
Author | Nicolas Van de Walle |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2006-08-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1403981280 |
As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.' This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role of governance in African development. The goal of the book is to move beyond the status quo debates about 'structural adjustment' and to look at all the public and civic institutions which are likely to play a critical role if Africa is to overcome its economic crisis.