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.

Focusing on Africa, Latin America and Asia, examines the origins, impacts and alternatives to the structural adjsutment programmes.

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.

Focuses on the 1980s while providing an overview of adjustment policy development. Includes a review of research literature and an inventory of African adjustment programmes supported by the IMF and the IBRD from 1980 to 1993.

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).

Cloth Edition. Much has been learned about the need to modify structural adjustment policies and to apply them in appropriate ways. This book brings together the theory of researchers and the practical experience of policymakers.

This book is among the first to take the poverty reduction paradigm as its central focus. Offering a comprehensive introduction, overview and critique, it traces the emergence of the framework and illustrates its consequences with global case studies.