Beyond economic liberalization in Africa : structural adjustment and the alternatives

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Beyond economic liberalization in Africa : structural adjustment and the alternatives

edited by Kidane Mengisteab and B. Ikubolajeh Logan

Zed, c1995

  • : pbk
  • : hard

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Have structural adjustment programmes in Africa largely failed? 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 the Africans? The contributors to this volume assert both positions. Case studies of education, health, public services and import-export performance demonstrate the frequent lack of success of structural adjustment. These are followed by alternative approaches to overcoming Africa's economic and human crises, including the importance of democracy in securing responsiveness of state policy to public needs, the structural advantages of regional integration, sustainable development strategies that build on the continent's resource base, and a new partnership between state and market.

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  • Part 1 Structural adjustment programmes - part of the problem: democratization and marketization
  • education adjustment under severe recessionary pressures - the case of Ghana
  • can sub-Saharan Africa successfully privatize its health-care sector?
  • structural adjustment, labour commitment and cooperation in the Ugandan service sector
  • devaluation - the response of exports and imports. Part 2 Other ways forward - democratization and regional integration: overcoming Africa's crisis - adjusting structural adjustment toward sustainable development
  • a partnership of the state and market in African development - what strategy mix?
  • democracy in Africa - constraints and future prospects
  • empowering the African state - economic adjustment strategies in Kenya and Zimbabwe
  • economic progress
  • economic progress - what Africa needs
  • structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) and regional integration - compatible or mutually exclusive?
  • counter-trade as a strategy for regional economic cooperation - the case of the PTA.

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