Michael Barratt Brown

Africa's Choices

After Thirty Years Of The World Bank

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For 30 years, the World Bank has proposed policies that have produced few economic benefits but have eroded the traditional strengths of African society. Examined here is that what Africans themselves are saying and doing indicates the basis for a continent's self-transformation and an agenda for the kind of support it desires.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780813333342
• ISBN-10: 0813333342
• Artikelnr.: 21518766

Autorenporträt

Michael Barratt Brown is the chair of TWIN Ltd. and of Twin Trading Ltd.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Something New out of Africa
PART I WHAT WAS PROPOSED FROM OUTSIDE
I. How Old is Africa's Crisis?
2. Alternative Growth Models in the Post-colonial State
3. Redistribution and Basic Needs
4. Structural Adjustment - by the World Bank
5. Crisis Management: Commodity Exports and Debt
6. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
PART 11 WHAT AFRICANS ARE SEEKING
7. Africa Must Unite: The Alternative Vision
8. Regional Groupings in Africa
9. Common Defence of Common Resources
10. Transformation and Self-reliance
11. An African Model of Industrial Development
12. The Informal
Second Economy
13. Let the Women Lead!
14. Developing Human Resources
15. Rural Development from the Grass Roots
16. Urbanization and Workers' Organizations
PART IH. A FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATION Lessons: For the People of the North and the South
17. Cooperation on the Ground
Chapter 18. Africa in the World Economy