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OUR CONTINENT, OUR
FUTURE
African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment |
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OUR CONTINENT, OUR FUTURE
African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment
Thandika Mkandawire and Charles C. Soludo
IDRC/CODESRIA/Africa World Press 1999
ISBN 0-88936-855-4
190 pp.
  
Disponible
en français
For decades now, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have implemented the
structural adjustment programs of the Bretton Woods Institutions. The
results, however, have been less than sterling. Extreme poverty and
underdevelopment continue to plague sub-Saharan Africa, and it is now
generally agreed that a new approach is urgently required.
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.
Our Continent, Our Future is the very first publication to
present the African perspective on the Bretton Woods approach to structural
adjustment, and it does so with the input and support of top economists and
scholars from every corner of Africa. This important book should be read by
students, professors, academics, and researchers in development, economics,
and African studies; professionals in donor organizations around the world;
policymakers in both the governmental and nongovernmental sectors; and all
citizens concerned with the future of Africa and issues of sustainable and
equitable development.
THE AUTHORS
Thandika Mkandawire is Director of the United Nations Research
Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Geneva. From 1986 until 1996,
he served as Executive Secretary of CODESRIA, the Council for the
Development of Social Research in Africa in Dakar, Senegal. Dr Mkandawire
also serves on the editorial boards of Global Governance, Development
and Change, and Africa Development, and is a member of the
Scientific Committee of the Association of African Universities, the
International Board of the Swedish NGO Fund for Human Rights, and the
Executive Board of the International Institute for Labour Studies.
Charles C. Soludo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Economics at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, Nigeria. Dr Soludo has
been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the University
of Cambridge, The Brookings Institute, and the University of Oxford and a
visiting professor at Swarthmore College (USA). He has also worked as a
consultant for a number of international organizations, including The World
Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and the United
Nations Development Programme.
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Foreword
K.Y. Amoaka 1999
Acknowledgments
1999
Introduction
1999
Chapter
1. Background - Assessing Initial Conditions 1999
Chapter
2. THE CRISIS - Diagnosis and Prescriptions 1999
Chapter
3. The Adjustment Experience 1999
Chapter
4. Widening the Road Ahead 1998
Appendix
— Abbreviations and Acronyms 1999
Bibliography
1999
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