Development Strategies in Africa: Current Economic, Socio-Political, and Institutional Trends and Issues / Edition 1

by Aguibou Yan Yansane

Overview

Distinguished experts on African development offer their considerable knowledge and background to the coming crisis in Africa. They examine not only development but also related factors such as foreign trade, politics, indigenous traditions, and international relations in order to understand development problems on the continent. It is one of the first volumes since the end of the Cold War to analyze African development, or the lack thereof, that had polarized the developing countries for the past 30 years. Yansané and his contributors present the strengths and weaknesses of various development strategies including ideas for the future, such as the inclusion of the human dimension that was overlooked in past strategies for growth. This inclusion would increase participation and the accountability of the political system and parties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313289941
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/11/1996
Series:	Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets , #17
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

Aguibou Yan Yansané is Professor of Political Economy in the Departments of International Relations and African and African-American Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Decolonization and Dependency: Problems of Development of African Societies (Greenwood, 1980) and Decolonization of West African States (1984), as well as many essays in published books and jourbanals. A companion volume, Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa, is to be published by Greenwood in 1994.

Table of Contents

preface
Introduction: The Development of Development Thinking in Africa: The Theory Revisited by A.Y. Yansané
Global Perspectives
Evaluation of Development Strategies: Prospects for Growth in Africa in the 1990's by Ismail Serageldin
Traditional Institutions and Economic Development: The Mossi Naam by Elliott P. Skinner
Afrostroika and Planned Governance: Economic Adjustment and political Engineering by Ali Mazrui
The Challenge of a Holistic Vision: Culture, Empowerment and the Development Paradigm by Ismail Serageldin
Comments of Discussants
Growth, Development, and Social Dimension of Structural Adjustment
Fund Supported Adjustment Programs and the Poor by Peter Heller
The Social Dimensions of Adjustment in Africa by the World Bank's Social Dimensions of Adjustment Unit, Washington, D.C.
Comments of Discussants
Participation, Pluralism, and Pervasive Poverty: Better Governance and Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Participation, Pluralism and Pervasive Poverty: Better Governance and Human Development in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) by Reginald Herbold Green
Problems and Projections in Political and Economic Development and the Impact of International Relations
Africa in an Emerging World by His Excellency, Professor Ibrahim Gambari
African Political Development: Beyond the Cold War by Samuel C. Nolutshungu
Comments of Discussants
Conclusion by A.Y. Yansané
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Provides a general overview of the strategies of development as they are practiced in African countries, and the different paths of development that have been followed. Covers global perspectives, growth development and the social dimensions of structural adjustment, political and economic reforms for more participation and pluralism in the sub-Sahara, problems and projections in political and economic development, and the impact of international relations. The 10 essays are selected from a 1990 colloquium series in San Francisco; a sister volume, Prospects of Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa contains case, sectoral, and alternative studies from the same series. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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