Dead-end to Nigerian Development SC (Printed)
Okwudiba Nnoli
CODESRIA, 1993, 264 p.
ISBN : 2-86978-020-6 (paperback)
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Dead-end to Nigerian Development SC (Printed)
Okwudiba Nnoli
Dead-end to Nigerian Development SC (Printed)
Okwudiba Nnoli
CODESRIA, 1993, 264 p.
ISBN : 2-86978-020-6 (paperback)
The ‘counter-revolution’ in Development Economics in the 1980s fundamentally altered the way the state ‘thinks’, which is evident in the state’s retrenchment and reconstitution of the state’s relationship to its citizens. The combination of deflationary macroeconomic policies and a residual approach to social policy, broadly, and social provisioning, more specifically, fundamentally altered the post-colonial trajectory of public policy in Africa. Despite the neoliberal ascendance that nurtured the more residual direction of social policy, the contention for an alternative vision of social policy remained and advanced with vigour. Specific contributions range from the deployment of social policy in framing the nation-building project, endogenous mutual support institutions, land and agrarian reform as a social policy instrument, the gender dynamics of social policy, and the mechanism enabling the spread of cash transfer schemes on the continent.
In 2001 NEPAD – the New Partnership for Africa’s Development – was launched by South African President Thabo Mbeke and Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal. Its founding assumption was that African governments had to take much more responsibility for their economic, political and social policy if real development were to be achieved. AFRICA & DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM is the first major attempt by African scholars and policy makers to evaluate the meaning of NEPAD in concrete terms. The authors raise key questions about NEPAD’s ability to integrate Africa with the global economy, to overcome the challenge of poverty, and to bring about regional development. The book also addresses what NEPAD means for agriculture, industrialisation, trade and the « digital divide ». This is an important contribution to our understanding of NEPAD, why it has already run into extensive criticism, and the prospects for a new, more positive chapter in Africa’s development.
Libéralisation et développement économiques en Afrique (Printed)
Dans son discours délivré à la clôture de la 11ème Assemblée Générale du CODESRIA, à Maputo en 2005, Jomo Kwame Sundaram remarque que plus de trois décennies de stagnation économique, de privation et d’une pauvreté agrandissante ont gravement affecté le tissu économique, social et politique de l’Afrique. Par conséquent, des efforts proactifs sont d’une urgente nécessité pour la création de capacités durables pour le développement. Sundaram défend que l’opinion générale sur le développement de l’Afrique et la pauvreté est souvent erroné et dangereux. Même le FMI a reconnu que la libéralisation financière internationale n’a fait qu’exacerber la volatilité. Encore pire, des preuves tangibles ont été fournies sur le fait que certaines recommandations avancées sur la politique économique et les conditionnalités imposées aux gouvernements africains ont reflété le manque de désintérêt et la préjudice de la part de ceux qui sont supposés aider l’Afrique. C’est en tenant compte du fait que la croissance économique et le développement ne réduisent pas nécessairement la pauvreté et les inégalités que Sundaram appelle à un ‘espace politique’ élargi afin que les gouvernements africains puissent choisir ou mettre sur pied leur propre stratégies de développement, mais aussi développer et mettre en oeuvre des politiques de développement qui sont plus appropriées.
The Study of Africa, Volume 2: Global and Transnational Engagements
This is the second of a two-volume work taking stock of the study of Africa in the twenty-first century: its status, research agenda and approaches, and place. It is divided into two parts, the first entitled Globalisation Studies and African Studies, and the second, African Studies in Regional Contexts. Topics addressed in part one include: trans-boundary formations and the study of Africa; global economic liberalisation and development in Africa; African diasporas, academics and the struggle for a global epistemic presence; and the problem of translation in African studies. Part two considers: African and area studies in France, the US, the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden; anti-colonialism and Russian/soviet African studies; African studies in the Carib bean in historical perspective; the teaching of African history and the history of Africa in Brazil; African studies in India; African studies and historiography in China in the twenty-first century; and African studies and contemporary scholarship in Japan.
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