1st Edition
Africa's Choices After Thirty Years Of The World Bank
452 Pages
by
Routledge
456 Pages
by
Routledge
456 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms. It is designed to examine the actual viability of the World Bank's structural adjustment strategies for Africa, all of which were designed to encourage export-led growth.
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
Biography
Michael Barratt Brown is the chair of TWIN Ltd. and of Twin Trading Ltd.