Structural Stability in an African Context: Discussion Paper 24

by Robert Kappel (Editor), Andreas Mehler (Editor), Henning Melber (Editor), Anders Danielson (Editor)

Overview

Structural Stability is a particular focus for reconceptualising developmental strategy and development aid and has provoked unforeseen responses in the course of a recent, mainly German debate. This debate began late in 2000 when a number of prominent German scholars in African Studies initiated a policy dialogue through a widely circulated and publicly discussed "Afrika Memorandum" centred on the notion of structural stability. Its arguments are relevant not only to a German audience but offer stimulating and thought-provoking inputs into the debate in the wider European context on bilateral and multilateral relations with Africa. This Discussion Paper presents the revised contributions to a Consultative Workshop on Structural Stability in an African Context that took place at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala on 31 March and 1 April 2003.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789171065216
Publisher:	Nordic Africa Institute, The
Publication date:	08/28/2004
Series:	NAI Discussion Papers Series
Pages:	55
Product dimensions:	6.48(w) x 9.46(h) x 0.21(d)
Lexile:	1400L (what's this?)

About the Author

Robert Kappel is Professor of Economics at the Institute for African Studies, University of Leipzig.

Andreas Mehler is a Political Scientist and Director of the Institute of African Affairs, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg.

Henning Melber is Executive Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. He was Research Director of the Nordic Africa Institute and co-ordinator of the project “Liberation and Democracy in Southern Africa” (2000–2006) and Director of the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek (1992–2000).

Anders Danielson teaches in the Department of Economics, Lund University.

Table of Contents

	Preface	5
	Economic Aspects of the African Crisis Low-Level Equilibria, Traps and Structural Instability	7
	Comments on Robert Kappel	29
	"Structural Stability"--A Leitmotiv for African Policies? Background and Ambition	32
	The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NePAD) A Step Towards Structural Stability?	45