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.
The Elusive Prince of Denmark
Title | The Elusive Prince of Denmark PDF eBook |
Author | Adebayo O. Olukoshi |
Publisher | Nordic Africa Institute |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9789171064288 |
Background context to the governance debate
Governance and structural adjustment programs : effects on investment, growth, and income distribution
Title | Governance and structural adjustment programs : effects on investment, growth, and income distribution PDF eBook |
Author | Tove Strauss |
Publisher | |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Economic policy |
ISBN | 9789172585133 |
Structural Adjustment and Good Governance
Title | Structural Adjustment and Good Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Tyrone Ferguson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Guyana |
ISBN | 9789768136695 |
Development Beyond Neoliberalism?
Title | Development Beyond Neoliberalism? PDF eBook |
Author | David Alan Craig |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2006-09-27 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1134363753 |
Development’s current focus – poverty reduction and good governance – signals a turn away from the older neoliberal preoccupation with structural adjustment, privatization and downsizing the state. For some, the new emphases on empowering and securing the poor through basic service delivery, local partnership, decentralization and institution building constitute a decisive break with the past and a whole set of new development possibilities beyond neoliberalism. Taking a wider historical perspective, this book charts the emergence of poverty reduction and governance at the centre of development. It shows that the Poverty Reduction paradigm does indeed mark a shift in the wider liberal project that has underpinned development: precisely what is new, and what this means for how the poor are governed, are described here in detail. This book provides a compelling history of development doctrine and practice, and in particular offers the first comprehensive account of the last twenty years, and development’s shift towards a new political economy of institution building, decentralized governance and local partnerships. The story is illustrated with extensive case studies from first hand experience in Vietnam, Uganda, Pakistan and New Zealand.
Governance Capacity and Economic Reform in Developing Countries
Title | Governance Capacity and Economic Reform in Developing Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Leila L. Frischtak |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780821329627 |
The inability to coordinate diverging interests and to promote policies that represent the public interest is one of many non-economic obstacles to economic reform. This paper examines the relationship between governance capacity and economic reform. The
From Structural Adjustment to Good Governance
Title | From Structural Adjustment to Good Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Benedicte Bull |
Publisher | |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | |
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