Economic Justice in Africa: Adjustment and Sustainable Development

by George W. Shepherd Jr., Karamo Sonko

Overview

Discussion over the impact of economic aid and development programs in Africa has become much more than an economics debate. In order to produce more effective and humane programs of adjustment for Africa and other developing regions, debate must encompass not only economic impacts but also political, social, and human consequences. This second volume in the Consortium on Human Rights Development's special studies on adjustment programs in Africa combines theory with empirical evidence and economic with political analysis to provide the most comprehensive multi-disciplinary coverage to date on IMF and World Bank adjustment programs in Africa. Building a link between structural adjustment and human rights in Africa, it makes a case for economic and political justice through sustainable development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313289651
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/30/1994
Series:	Studies in Human Rights , #16
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)

About the Author

GEORGE W. SHEPHERD, JR. is Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. His areas of specialization are international politics and human rights, with special interest in Africa. He is a founder and once-editor of Africa Today, and founder and director of the Center on Rights Development, University of Denver. He has authored numerous books and articles on Africa and international human rights.

KARAMO N. M. SONKO is a post-doctoral fellow in Development Economics at the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he is researching the effects of the European Common Market on Africa. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor in the M.B.A. Program, Regis University, and the Departments of Economics at the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Denver. He has also worked at the IMF and taught at the University of Paris. His publications include a book, Debt, Development and Equity in Africa (1993).

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
Preface
Debt, Development and Democracy: The Rights versus Efficiency Debate in Adjustment by George W. Shepherd, Jr.
A Multidimensional Approach to Designing Effective Adjustment Programs by Haider A. Khan and Karamo N. M. Sonko
Macroeconomic Effects of IMF Adjustment Policies by Haider A. Khan and Hitoshi Sogabe
The Public Enterprise Sectors and Adjustment Programs in Africa by Karamo N. M. Sonko
Environmental Degradation, World Bank Programs and the Right to a Clean Environment by Sylvain Bayalama
A Study of the Effects of Structural Adjustment on Health and Education in Africa by Jean Thiesen
The Right to Food: Questions of Entitlement under Structural Adjustment Policies by Eileen McCarthy-Arnolds
Democratization and the Political Dimensions of Adjustment in Africa by Sakah S. Mahmud
Structural Adjustment and the Right to Personal Security in Africa by David R. Penna
A Further Extension of Adjustment Models: The Environment and Equity by Haider A. Khan and Karamo N. M. Sonko
Epochs of Economic Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe and Its Social Dimensions: 1965-1995 by Mthuli N. Ncube
Selected Bibliography
Index