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Author: Kwame Sundaram
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2008-05-15
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 2869783949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSundaram notes that over three decades of economic stagnation, contraction and increased poverty have taken a huge toll on Africa's economic, social and political fabric; and pro-active efforts are urgently required in order to build new capacities and c
Author: Gift Mugano
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 100045794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a thorough and rigorous discussion on the impact of trade liberalisation on economic development with a special focus on the African continent. The author presents the rationale for trade liberalisation, trade liberalisation frameworks, the trade liberalisation economic development nexus, impediments to trade, and contemporary issues of international trade. In this book, notwithstanding the benefits from trade liberalisation, the author shows that African trade as a share of global trade has remained flat at 3% as in 1975, while the continent’s exports have remained raw materials and its intra-regional trade at less than 15% of total trade, which is the lowest in the world (UNCTAD, 2020). With respect to key economic development indicators such as economic growth, poverty levels, and employment levels, this book shows that, ironically and in direct contrast with the conventional views that trade liberalisation alleviates poverty, trade liberalisation in Africa has resulted in high levels of unemployment and low economic growth which ultimately lead to increased poverty. In addition, this book provides a detailed analysis of why trade liberalisation has failed to yield meaningful benefits to Africa. The binding constraints and blockages which prevent positive spin-offs on trade liberalisation in Africa are discussed in detail in this book. In the same vein, the author provides practical strategies which must be adopted by African countries in order to gain from trade liberalisation, making this work a must-read for African governments, academia, trade experts, regional trading blocs, the World Trade Organization, and development partners. In view of this, and as part of the disruptive and structural transformation policies, the author discusses case studies and international experience contextualised to Africa as well as strategies for addressing the trade-related infrastructure gap, production capacities, export promotion, and aid for trade.
Author: Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Publisher: Conseil Pour Le Developement De LA
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9782869782327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gift Mugano
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1000457915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a thorough and rigorous discussion on the impact of trade liberalisation on economic development with a special focus on the African continent. The author presents the rationale for trade liberalisation, trade liberalisation frameworks, the trade liberalisation economic development nexus, impediments to trade, and contemporary issues of international trade. In this book, notwithstanding the benefits from trade liberalisation, the author shows that African trade as a share of global trade has remained flat at 3% as in 1975, while the continent’s exports have remained raw materials and its intra-regional trade at less than 15% of total trade, which is the lowest in the world (UNCTAD, 2020). With respect to key economic development indicators such as economic growth, poverty levels, and employment levels, this book shows that, ironically and in direct contrast with the conventional views that trade liberalisation alleviates poverty, trade liberalisation in Africa has resulted in high levels of unemployment and low economic growth which ultimately lead to increased poverty. In addition, this book provides a detailed analysis of why trade liberalisation has failed to yield meaningful benefits to Africa. The binding constraints and blockages which prevent positive spin-offs on trade liberalisation in Africa are discussed in detail in this book. In the same vein, the author provides practical strategies which must be adopted by African countries in order to gain from trade liberalisation, making this work a must-read for African governments, academia, trade experts, regional trading blocs, the World Trade Organization, and development partners. In view of this, and as part of the disruptive and structural transformation policies, the author discusses case studies and international experience contextualised to Africa as well as strategies for addressing the trade-related infrastructure gap, production capacities, export promotion, and aid for trade.
Author: Shinichi Takeuchi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9811647259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.
Author: Kwesi Kwaa Prah
Publisher: Organisation for Social Science Research
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaced in the same context as volume one, volume two of the Fifth Congress Proceedings of the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa is focused on political and economic reforms, and transformations and gender issues. The papers included are: culture and productivity, the welfare state on trial, civil service reform in Uganda, traditional leaders in the decentralised process civil society, indigenous populist institutions and implications for political reforms in Uganda,the nature of economic reforms in Tanzania and Botswana, tradition and modernity in our times, economic liberalisation and civil society in Sudan, pauperisation of the middle class in Sudan, authoritarian populism and democratisation in Ethiopia, the political economy of democratisation in Swaziland, political culture and the limits if institutional reforms,incorporating women in development, the participation of women inpolitical activities in Africa, economic structural adjustment programmes in Zimbabwe - their impact on the gender dimensions, the effects of structural adjustment programmes on women's health in Kenya, gender sensitivity and development in health policies, poverty and food nsecurity in Tanzania.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs of June 2006, some ten years after the launch of the HIPC initiative, only 15 of the 32 African countries included in the HIPC list of 38 had reached completion.1 According to the World Bank, by 1998, a quarter of the population of the developing world, i.e. [...] The international sovereign debt crises from the early 1980s enabled the BWIs to impose the reform agenda as policy conditionalities for providing desperately needed credit in the face of the Volcker- induced world recession, following the contractionary impact of raised US interest rates in the early 1980s. [...] The BWIs and their supporters have continued to deny that the poorer economic performance of the African region and the world in recent decades, can be directly attributed to the recommended or imposed policies pursued over the last two and a half decades. [...] Millions have migrated to urban areas, seeking and adopting different economic survival strategies in the face of very limited employment opportunities in the formal urban economy, whether in the debilitated public sector or in the private sector, following the de-industrialisation in the continent over recent decades. [...] The MDGs are important for, and mutually reinforce, the UN's broader De- velopment Agenda, derived from the UN's global summits and conferences, especially since the 1990s; such as the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Population and Development Conference in Cairo in 1994, the Beijing Conference on Women in 1995, the Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development in 2002 and the Joha.
Author: Jennifer A. Widner
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAims to establish the nature of the relationship between the economic challenges of the 1980s and the steps toward greater political openness taken by governments at the end of that decade.
Author: Jo Ann Paulson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1349274836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the focus on economic liberalization in those socialist countries which began from a position of pervasive state intervention. A companion theoretical volume (0-333-66545-7) examines the changing role of the state during the period of transition. This volume examines the important debate on agricultural reforms in the period, and provides in-depth country studies of the transition economies, covering Congo, Madagascar, Tanzania and the impact of war on transition in Angola and Mozambique. These books are the first in an important new series in association with the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
Author: Alex E. Fernandez Jilberto
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 113482582X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiberalization in the Developing World compares the success of liberalization strategies in Asia, Africa and Latin America over the past decade. Three models emerge, corresponding to the three continents covered, which reflect the degree of state intervention in the economy and the success of the liberalization policies adopted. The conclusions drawn demonstrate that economic and political liberalization do not have to go hand in hand. On the contrary, the case studies presented in this volume show that the role of the state can be crucial in mobilizing both the human and capital investment needed to be able to compete in international economy.
