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Our Continent, Our Future

Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 155250204X

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.

Policy Adjustment in Africa

Author: Chris Milner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1349120421

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The volume provides a range of case studies and both complements and advances core texts on economic development. The topics addressed cover a range of issues around the theme of policy adjustment.

Adjustment in Africa

Author: Ishrat Husain

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780821327876

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World Bank Environment Paper 4. This survey describes the factors that affect tree cultivation and clearance by Kenyan farmers. These factors include agricultural conditions, product markets, the family life cycle, income, and changing demands for household labor--especially demands caused by labor migration. The author explains why removing structural constraints on rural land markets might reduce the incentive to start and maintain woodlots. He also details why policies that seek to create forests may conflict with programs that generate rural employment.

Structural Adjustment and Economic Development in Africa

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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Structural Adjustment Reconsidered

Author: David E. Sahn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-08-13

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780521665131

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In this 1998 study the authors isolate the effect of specific policy measures associated with adjustment programs in ten African countries.

Africa Beyond Adjustment

Author: Nguyuru Haruna Ibrahim Lipumba

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Food Security Policy in Africa Between Disaster Relief and Structural Adjustment

Author: Gabriele Geier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1135207690

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According to the FAO, one person in three in sub-Saharan Africa suffers from malnutrition, and one in seven is in danger of dying. Most African countries no longer seem capable of ensuring that their people have access to sufficient food. Given the failure of past efforts the objectives of food security policies and their effectiveness have to be reconsidered. This book shows that the debate on food security policies has changed with the passage of time. The entitlement debate triggered by A. Sen had a major influence on this change but, the bearing of socio-economic structures on the food security of African households and their individual members are still not fully recognised.

Policy Adjustment in Africa

Author: Chris Milner

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9780312085469

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This book contains a series of case studies on differing aspects of policy adjustment in Africa. The studies, by specialists with operational experience of economic policy reform in Africa, are both topical and relevant to current policy debate. The issues raised are set within the context of economic recovery programmes sponsored by external agencies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that are intended to alleviate the continent's very special and extreme problems.

The Policy Paradox in Africa

Author: Elias Ayuk

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1552503356

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It provided technical and financial support to economic research centres in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) so that they can undertake policy-relevant research with the goal of influencing economic policy-making. In January 2005, the Secretariat organized an international conference in Dakar, Senegal, during which participants from key economic think tanks presented their experiences in the policy development process in Africa. Of particular interest was the role of economic research and economic researchers in policy-making. The authors examine the extent to which economic policies that are formulated in the sub-continent draw from research based on local realities and undertaken by local researchers and research networks in Africa.