Product Description: There is growing consensus in the literature that trade and trade policy matter for a pro-poor growth and development strategy. Therefore, policies that are consistent with this strategy feature increasingly in many African countries where poverty is endemic and rapid and where sustainable economic growth is viewed as the major vehicle for poverty reduction...read more

Product Description: This book revisits the concepts and methodologies associated with eurocentrism in particular and hegemonic discourse in general, as these relate to African studies. Racial bias, intolerance, parochialism, and male chauvinism have manifested themselves in various ways and this text aims to address the important issues surrounding this phenomenon...read more

Product Description: It is typically taken for granted that African economies perform poorly, but there are a small but significant number of success stories on the continent. This study explores what accounts for Africa's average stagnation, and for the wide regional variations in developmental fortunes...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays investigates how structural adjustment and economic liberalisation have impacted upon labour regimes - e.g., trade unions; and upon state and civil society relations, and processes of democratisation. The studies resulted from a conference hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, in co-operation with the Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm...read more

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Product Description: This book, published for and on the behalf of the United Nations, seeks to identify, in an international perspective, what has and has not worked in structural adjustment programs in Africa. It attempts to explain key weaknesses in these programs, and proposes feasible alternatives...read more

Product Description: This volume contains an authoritative examination by leading scholars in the field of the key themes in Africa's recent fiscal reforms and trade liberalization and the continent's prospects for improving trade and development. Differing reform strategies are reformed and assessed with a range of case-studies of fiscal reform in Kenya, the Côte d'Ivoire and Tanzania...read more

Product Description: The emerging African prespective on the complex issue of structural adjustment is here analysed. It answers the major challenge for Africans themselves to lead the reform process which has been dominated by external ideas and models...read more

Product Description: This is the first book 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. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future...read more

Structural adjustment is not just an economic strategy but, this book argues, embodies a social, cultural and even religious vision for the remaking of Africa and the world. This highly original critique of the World Bank's structural adjustment agenda in Africa explodes the value-free pretensions of economics. It provides a more integrated understanding of questions of faith and values in development than has been available from theologians and social scientists up to now, and helps to explain why churches are so intimately involved in these struggles. The book focuses on three aspects of structural adjustment in Africa: the fundamentalist character of World Bank thinking in the scale of its ambitions and its denial of the legitimacy of contrary views; criticisms of structural adjustment from a variety of social science perspectives; and the resistance to this agenda emerging from African churches and social movements.

Product Description: This book asserts two central questions in African development today: have structural adjustment programmes failed, and ought the World Bank and the IMF to be paying more attention to the particular circumstances of individual countries and to the alternative policies being proposed by Africans? Powerful case studies of education, health, public services, and import-export performance demonstrate the frequent lack of success of structural adjustment...read more

Product Description: This book asserts two central questions in African development today: have structural adjustment programmes failed, and ought the World Bank and the IMF to be paying more attention to the particular circumstances of individual countries and to the alternative policies being proposed by Africans? Powerful case studies of education, health, public services, and import-export performance demonstrate the frequent lack of success of structural adjustment...read more

No one can fail to be aware of the incredible impact that the IMF and the World Bank have had on Africa. Their structural adjustment programmes were deliberately designed to shock African economies into free market reform and ensuing stability. But when `getting the prices right' first swamped the World Bank's African economic plans in the early 1980s, few bothered to analyse the politics of a reform package whose immediate impact was violent and unsettling. While Africa has come a long way since then, the goal of market reform must be as important as the task of understanding the politics of unleashing the forces of the market. Not least, is the question of democratisation, which the Bank itself now attempts to force through with loan conditions. This book is the culmination of intense debate by African authors across the continent. Three sections make up a comprehensive analysis of adjustment regimes, their perspectives and the political context in which they have survived, or not. Country case studies in both anglophone and francophone Africa round up the analysis.

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Product Description: Seminar Proceedings No. 26 with with references and bibliography, 236 pages.

Product Description: An invaluable reference tool containing three key documents in which Africans analyze critical contemporary issues: "African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programs for Socioeconomic Recovery and Transformation," "African Charter for Popular Participation in Development and Transformation," and "The Kampala Document: Towards a Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa...read more

Providing overviews of states and sectors, classes and companies in the new international division of labour, this series treats polity-economy dialectics at global, regional and national levels. This volume in the series looks at the complexities of structural adjustment in Africa.