Towards a Dynamic African Economy: Selected Speeches and Lectures 1975-1986 / Edition 1

by Adebayo Adedeji, Jeggan Colley Senghor

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714633497
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/11/2004
Pages:	734
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adebayo Adedeji United Nations Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. Abdou Diouf President of the Republic of Senegal, Kenneth D. Kaunda President of the Republic of Zambia. Jeggan C. Senghor Special Assistant to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Global Perspectives; Chapter 1 On the Crisis in Socio-Economic Development; Chapter 1-I The African Development Problematique Demography, Drought, Desertification, Dependency, Disequilibrium, Debt and Destabilization or The Paralysis of Multiple Debilitating Crises Washington, D.C. 24 March 1985; Chapter 1-II Address to the 20th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity Addis Ababa, 12 November 1984; Chapter 1-III The African Economy at the Crossroads; Chapter 1-IV Statement at the Opening of the 44th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity Addis Ababa 22 July 1986; Chapter 2 On Africa in the World Economy; Chapter 2-1 Development Policy: New Perspectives in International Cooperation for Economic and Social Change International Conference on Perspectives in Afro-German Relations Bonn, 8 October 1975; Chapter 2-II Africa in a Divided and Inequitable World Economy: The Permanent Underdog? Lecture delivered in Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the International Development Research Centre of Canada, Ottawa 3 December 1980; Chapter 2-III Perspectives on Development and Economic Growth in Africa up to the Year 2000; Chapter 2-IV The Deepening International Economic Crisis and its Implications for Africa; Chapter 2-V Some Reflections on Nigeria’s Economic Performance since Independence and Thoughts on Future Prospects Nigeria Silver Jubilee Independence Symposium Lagos, 27 September 1985; Chapter 2-VI Pluralism as a Factor in Africa’s Development and Modernization; Chapter 2-VII Africa and the South: Forging Truly Interdependent Economic and Technical Links Indian Institute for International Affairs, New Delhi, 21 May 1979; Chapter 2-VIII The Multidimensionality of the Ecological and Environmental Aspects of Development; Chapter 3 On International Responses; Chapter 3-I Africa and the New International Economic Order: A Re-Assessment; Chapt