Synopses & Reviews
NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa's Development, is the latest attempt to chart a new course of good governance and effective development for the continent. In this book, some of Africa's best economists and social scientists reflect on its previous experience with alternatives to structural adjustment. The aim is to chart viable policy directions for the future, and to assess the prospects of NEPAD measuring up to the challenges involved. The eminent economist Professor Adebayo Adedeji, in honor of whose seventieth birthday the essays were compiled, is well-known for his pioneering work on the African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment, at a time when the damage caused by structural adjustment was only just beginning to become clear.
Synopsis
NEPAD -- the New Partnership for Africa's Development -- is the latest attempt to chart a new course of good governance combined with an effective development strategy for the African continent. This volume brings together some of Africa's best economists and social scientists to reflect on Africa's previous experiences with alternative paradigms to structural adjustment and related problems. The intention is to learn from the past in order to chart viable new policy directions for the future, including critically assessing the prospects for NEPAD measuring up to the challenges involved.
This rich collection of essays examines a wide range of economic issues such as the importance of planning, the continuing reality of the debt crisis, and the new parameters for regional integration in the context of the global economy. Good governance is analysed, as is corporate governance. There is a special emphasis on issues of human development, including poverty, HIV/AIDS, and the refugee problem. The assumption is that the continent's decades of experience since independence embody lessons and reflect alternative policy approaches which, if properly understood, could be of real value in charting a viable future for its people -- provided African countries are set free to chart their own courses of action that address their particular circumstances and meet the social and economic needs of their own populations.
The occasion for these essays was the 70th birthday of one of Africa's most eminent economists and a leading public servant -- Professor Adebayo Adedeji. Former Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission on Africa and Under Secretary General of the United Nations, scholar, and author of numerous books and papers, Adebayo Adedeji is perhaps best known for his pioneering work developing the African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment at a time when the damage being caused by the latter policies being imposed on Africa was only just beginning to become clear.
About the Author
The late
Bade Onimode was Professor of Economics and Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at Nigeria's University of Ibadan.
Table of Contents
Contents * Preface *
Part One: Mobilisation for the Implementation of Africa's Indigenous Alternative Paradigm * Forty Years of Development Illusions: Revisiting Development Selling Policies and Practices in Africa * Mobilisation for the Implementation of Alternative Development Paradigms in Africa for the 21st Century * Revisiting the African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programme for Socio-economic Recovery and Transformation (AAF-SAP) in the Light of Contemporary Nigerian Experience * Revisiting the African Alternative to SAP * Centrality of Planning to Alternative Development Paradigms in Africa * Implementation of Africa's Development Paradigm--Solution to Africa's Socio-economic Problems * Impact of Modernisation and Globalisation on Africa's Political Economy--Nigeria as a Case Study *
Part Two: Governance and Development * Governance, Security and Conflict Resolution * Achieving Good Governance--Role of Women in Policy Making * Contemporary External Influences on Corporate Governance: Coping with the challenges in Africa *
Part Three: Antidotes to Good Governance and Development * The Refugee Problem * External Debt Crisis * Human Development Deprivation: Water and Sanitation as a Case Study * Poverty and HIV/AIDS--Instruments for Regulating African Insecurity? *
Part Four: Regionalism and Development * Regional Economic Integration: A Development Paradigm for Africa * Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union and Post-Colonial Africa Experiences * Epilogue: The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)--Yet Another Plan, Another Initiative and a New Partnership?
Contents * Preface * Part One: Mobilisation for the Implementation of Africa's Indigenous Alternative Paradigm * Forty Years of Development Illusions: Revisiting Development Selling Policies and Practices in Africa * Mobilisation for the Implementation of Alternative Development Paradigms in Africa for the 21st Century * Revisiting the African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programme for Socio-economic Recovery and Transformation (AAF-SAP) in the Light of Contemporary Nigerian Experience * Revisiting the African Alternative to SAP * Centrality of Planning to Alternative Development Paradigms in Africa * Implementation of Africa's Development Paradigm--Solution to Africa's Socio-economic Problems * Impact of Modernisation and Globalisation on Africa's Political Economy--Nigeria as a Case Study * Part Two: Governance and Development * Governance, Security and Conflict Resolution * Achieving Good Governance--Role of Women in Policy Making * Contemporary External Influences on Corporate Governance: Coping with the challenges in Africa * Part Three: Antidotes to Good Governance and Development * The Refugee Problem * External Debt Crisis * Human Development Deprivation: Water and Sanitation as a Case Study * Poverty and HIV/AIDS--Instruments for Regulating African Insecurity? * Part Four: Regionalism and Development * Regional Economic Integration: A Development Paradigm for Africa * Transfrontier Regionalism: The European Union and Post-Colonial Africa Experiences * Epilogue: The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)--Yet Another Plan, Another Initiative and a New Partnership?