Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa

AvAguibou Yan Yansane,Aguibou Y. Yansane

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:1996-04-16
Mått:156 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:822 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313289958

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AGUIBOU Y. YANSANÉ is Professor of Political Economy in the Departments of International Relations and African and African-American Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Decolonization and Dependency: Problems of Development of African Societies (Greenwood, 1980) and Decolonization of West African States (1984), as well as many essays in published books and journals. A companion volume, Development Strategies in Africa, is to be published by Greenwood in 1994.

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Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Are Alternative Development Strategies Suitable for Africa to Remedy Its Deepening Crisis? by A. Y. YansanéInternational Institutions Experts' ViewsProspects for Africa's Economic Recovery and Development by Michel Doo KinguéNational Capacity Building and Long Term Development: The Role of Technical Cooperation in Africa by Stephen AdeiComments of DiscussantsResponses to and Impact of the Crisis of Development in Africa: Regional and Sectoral PerspectivesExtent of the Crisis and Structural Adjustment in Côte D'Ivoire, Senegal, and Guinea: Implications for One Another by A. Y. YansanéNigeria: Priorities and Prospects for the 1990s by Chukwuma F. ObidegwuThe Effects of Adjustment Measures on Nigerian Labor by Tayo FashoyinGlobal Formulae, Local Responses, Rural Economic Differentiation in Ghana by Gwendolyn MikellMacro-Modeling Aspects of Adjustment Policy Planning by Charles N'Cho-OguieComments of DiscussantsReformulation of ModelsAn Alternative Framework for Adjustment with Transformation and Major Policy Directions and Policy Instruments by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)Toward an Alternative Development Strategy by Ann SeidmanThe World Bank versus the Economic Commission of Africa: Is this Really a Conflict as to Development Strategy? by Robert S. BrowneComments of DiscussantsWriters' Views of Development in AfricaIs Development a Purely Empirical Concept or Also Teleological: A Perspective from We the Underdeveloped by Sylvia WynterComments of DiscussantsConclusion by A.Y. YansanéSelected BibliographyIndex