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Book Synopsis Africa's Adjustment and Growth in the 1980s by :
Download or read book Africa's Adjustment and Growth in the 1980s written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report offers new perspectives on sub-Saharan Africa's economic experience in the 1980s. That experience is often perceived as one of crisis and decline caused largely by hostile external factors. By putting Africa's extraordinary difficulties in the 1980s in a longer-term and global perspective, the report suggests that external factors may have been less hostile than supposed and less culpable in explaining the crisis. Moreover, the report shows emerging signs of economic improvement since the mid-1980s. This different view of the 1980s puts Africa's future in a fresh perspective - with a brighter prospect of recovery and growth. The report suggests that programs of economic reform and adjustment have helped African countries begin to improve their economic performance. Between 1983 and 1988, over half the countries of the region began, one after the other, to initiate policy reforms to favor increased efficiency in the use of scarce resources and to strengthen their competitiveness. This wave of reform arose largely from the crisis facing Africa. But an important feature of the movement toward policy reform and orderly structural adjustment is that Africans accepted the principal responsibility for their economic decisions and destiny.
Book Synopsis Policies for African Development by : I. G. Patel
Download or read book Policies for African Development written by I. G. Patel and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-12-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite economic hardships during the past 20 years, Africa has recently enjoyed positive real economic growth, transformed its economic structures and systems, and improved living standards. Much of this owes to the determined pursuit of growth-oriented adjustment efforts, with IMF support, by nearly 30 African countries. Edited by I.G. Patel, this volume discusses progress made by Africa in the 1980s and prospects and needs for continued development in the 1990s.
Book Synopsis Our Continent, Our Future by : P. Thandika Mkandawire
Download or read book Our Continent, Our Future written by P. Thandika Mkandawire and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Book Synopsis Africa’s Recovery in the 1990s by : Henning Pieper
Download or read book Africa’s Recovery in the 1990s written by Henning Pieper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the 1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on growth and social implications, this book argues that several orthodox adjustment policies are still incongruent with long-term development in Africa. It goes on to discuss a development strategy which could lead to a much awaited economic recovery and improvement in social conditions in Africa in the 1990s drawing its conclusions from a general theoretical discussion and national case-studies.
Book Synopsis Is Adjustment Conducive to Long-term Development? by : Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Download or read book Is Adjustment Conducive to Long-term Development? written by Giovanni Andrea Cornia and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Adjustment in Africa by : World Bank Staff
Download or read book Adjustment in Africa written by World Bank Staff and published by World Bank. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines whether Africa's disappointing economic performance reflects a failure to undertake structural adjustment reforms or a failure of those reforms to boost growth. Covers 29 African countries that underwent adjustment in the late 1980s. To reverse the economic decline that began in the 1970s, many Sub-Saharan countries initiated programs to pave the way for long-term development and prosperity by restructuring their economies. This report addresses just how much those countries undertaking reform actually changed their policies, the extent to which their policy reforms restored growth, and the future for adjustment. The report recognizes that adjustment can work in Africa but that it cannot work miracles in reducing poverty or ensuring sustained, equitable growth. African adjustment programs must go hand in hand with long-term development efforts to invest more in human capital and infrastructure, expand institutional capacity, and provide better governance.
Book Synopsis World Bank Adjustment Lending and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s by : Ibrahim Elbadawi
Download or read book World Bank Adjustment Lending and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s written by Ibrahim Elbadawi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Adjustment in Africa by : Ishrat Husain
Download or read book Adjustment in Africa written by Ishrat Husain and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of case studies focuses on the processes and outcomes of reform programs in seven African countries--Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania--chosen for the wide variety of conditions present before their individual adjustment programs began. The World Bank's recent policy research report Adjustment in Africa: Reforms, Results, and the Road Ahead concludes that the adjustment programs launched in 29 countries in the mid-1980's have resulted in some improvement in the overall policy environment. These improvements have been strongest in the macroeconomic and agricultural spheres and weakest in the areas of finance and public enterprise. The study also finds that reform programs work in the countries where policy performance has been good; conversely, poor policy progress has been reflected in poor performance. This volume presents case studies of seven country experiences to supplement and reinforce findings from the Policy Research Report. The studies confirm that whenever adjustment programs are vigorously pursued, results are strongly positive from the viewpoints of growth and alleviation of poverty. A key element in ensuring a successful adjustment program is strong motivation and commitment by the leadership in each nation. Too many abrupt, unpredictable, and frequent changes and reversals of policies erode the credibility of the programs, intensify the uncertainties, and slow down investor confidence. In short, the success of reforms hinges on policy stability, continuity, and predictability.
Book Synopsis Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Evangelos A. Calamitsis
Download or read book Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Evangelos A. Calamitsis and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many respects, sub-Saharan Africa today is quite different from what it was in the early 1980s. For the first time in a generation, there is clear evidence of economic progress in an increasing number of countries in the region. Thus, since 1994 aggregate economic performance has been improving, reflecting the implementation of appropriate policies, often in the context of comprehensive adjustment and reform programs supported by the IMF and the World Bank. Sound fiscal and monetary policies have led to a substantial reduction of domestic and external financial imbalances. At the same time, important structural reforms have contributed to alleviating distortions and improving overall economic efficiency.2 More and more countries in the region are also giving increasing attention to achieving high-quality growth by placing higher priority on public spending on health care, education, and other basic social services. Moreover, the implementation of these economic policies has been accompanied by political liberalization and a movement toward participatory forms of government that foster a consensus encompassing the state and civil society.
Download or read book Adjustment in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Crisis, Adjustment and Growth in Uganda by : Arne Bigsten
Download or read book Crisis, Adjustment and Growth in Uganda written by Arne Bigsten and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uganda in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of Africa's sadder economic stories. Emerging from civil war, it had to embark on reform in the early to mid 1980s from a position of severe political weakness. In this study, the effects of economic policy at the aggregate level are discussed in detail, but snapshot empirical analyses of responses at the household level, both urban and rural are also presented. Uganda was for many years considered to be Africa's worst case, its recent recovery thus provides hope for similar countries in the region.
Book Synopsis Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Robert Lensink
Download or read book Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Robert Lensink and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an overview of the debate on adjustment programmes financed by the Wold Bank and the IMF in Africa during the 1980s. Compares Africa with several other developing regions. Describes the structure of the World Bank and the IMF, and their credit facilities for financing adjustments.
Book Synopsis Structural Adjustment and the Poor in Africa by : Anuradha Basu
Download or read book Structural Adjustment and the Poor in Africa written by Anuradha Basu and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Statistics and Policies by : Nations Unies. Commission économique pour l'Afrique
Download or read book Statistics and Policies written by Nations Unies. Commission économique pour l'Afrique and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sub-Saharan Africa written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3. Investing in people.
Book Synopsis World Bank Adjustment Lending and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s by : Ibrahim Elbadawi
Download or read book World Bank Adjustment Lending and Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s written by Ibrahim Elbadawi and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Adjustment To Development In Africa by : Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Download or read book From Adjustment To Development In Africa written by Giovanni Andrea Cornia and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the principal sources of agreement and disagreement among policymakers and analysts concerning the current economic problems of Sub-Saharan Africa. A distinguished collection of international and African authors, including economists from the IMF and the World Bank, as well as their critics, addresses the key policy issues in agriculture, trade, macroeconomic management, social issues, privatization, external capital flow, and political economy. An introductory interpretive essay searches for areas of consensus and identifies those of continuing controversy.
