Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa

by Aguibou Yan Yansane

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313289958
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/16/1996
Series:	Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets , #16
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)

About the Author

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 jourbanals. A companion volume, Development Strategies in Africa, is to be published by Greenwood in 1994.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction: Are Alternative Development Strategies Suitable for Africa to Remedy Its Deepening Crisis? by A. Y. Yansané
International Institutions Experts' Views
Prospects for Africa's Economic Recovery and Development by Michel Doo Kingué
National Capacity Building and Long Term Development: The Role of Technical Cooperation in Africa by Stephen Adei
Comments of Discussants
Responses to and Impact of the Crisis of Development in Africa: Regional and Sectoral Perspectives
Extent of the Crisis and Structural Adjustment in Côte D'Ivoire, Senegal, and Guinea: Implications for One Another by A. Y. Yansané
Nigeria: Priorities and Prospects for the 1990s by Chukwuma F. Obidegwu
The Effects of Adjustment Measures on Nigerian Labor by Tayo Fashoyin
Global Formulae, Local Responses, Rural Economic Differentiation in Ghana by Gwendolyn Mikell
Macro-Modeling Aspects of Adjustment Policy Planning by Charles N'Cho-Oguie
Comments of Discussants
Reformulation of Models
An 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 Seidman
The World Bank versus the Economic Commission of Africa: Is this Really a Conflict as to Development Strategy? by Robert S. Browne
Comments of Discussants
Writers' Views of Development in Africa
Is Development a Purely Empirical Concept or Also Teleological: A Perspective from We the Underdeveloped by Sylvia Wynter
Comments of Discussants
Conclusion by A.Y. Yansané
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Ten selected papers originally presented at the San Francisco State University Multidisciplinary Colloquium Series on the Evaluation of Development Strategies: Prospects of Growth in Africa in the 1990s, 1990. The discussions respond to the question of whether alternative development strategies are suitable remedies to the varied economic and political crisis confronting Africa. Scholars and economists review research and studies, and present regional implementation of development plans in Nigeria, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast, advocating serious reformulation of models and economic strategies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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