Africa's Choices: After Thirty Years Of The World Bank

ISBN-13: 9780813333342 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 456 str.

Michael Barratt Brown; Michael Barratt Brown

Opis

For thirty years, the World Bank has proposed policies that have produced few economic benefits but have eroded the traditional strengths of African societyeven the Bank itself now admits this. But while African leaders, many propped up by the West, are often corrupt or incompetent, an impressive range of regional initiatives and small-scale cooperatives, fledgling industrial projects, women's organizations, and peasant associations represent major signs of hope. These countless initiatives, now springing from the grass roots of African life, embody the realities of an African road to development. They speak for good sense and great courage against the failed miseries of today: against World Bank dogmas left over from the Thatcher/Reagan era, against pricing abuses, against uncanceled debts owed to the rich by the world's poorest countriesall of which have led to economic breakdown and war. They also challenge our failure to open up our markets to African exports and our minds to African expertise. Examined here in a manner that is both penetrating and hardheaded, what Africans themselves are saying and doing indicates the basis for a continent's self-transformation and an agenda for the kind of support they are seeking."

Spis treści

Introduction: Something New out of Africa, PART I WHAT WAS PROPOSED FROM OUTSIDE, I. How Old is Africa's Crisis?, 2. Alternative Growth Models in the Post-colonial State, 3. Redistribution and Basic Needs, 4. Structural Adjustment - by the World Bank, 5. Crisis Management: Commodity Exports and Debt, 6. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, PART 11 WHAT AFRICANS ARE SEEKING, 7. Africa Must Unite: The Alternative Vision, 8. Regional Groupings in Africa, 9. Common Defence of Common Resources, 10. Transformation and Self-reliance, 11. An African Model of Industrial Development, 12. The Informal, Second Economy, 13. Let the Women Lead!, 14. Developing Human Resources, 15. Rural Development from the Grass Roots, 16. Urbanization and Workers' Organizations, PART IH. A FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATION Lessons: For the People of the North and the South, 17. Cooperation on the Ground, Chapter 18. Africa in the World Economy

O autorze

Michael Barratt Brown is the chair of TWIN Ltd. and of Twin Trading Ltd.