African development and governance strategies in the 21st century : looking back to move forward : essays in honour of Adebayo Adedeji at seventy / Lawrence O.C. Agubuzu ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agubuzu, Lawrence, 1942-

Adedeji, Adebayo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Economic policy.

Africa.

Economic policy.

Africa--Economic conditions--1960-.

Economic conditions.

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books, in association with African Centre for Development & Strategic Studies : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2004.

Summary:

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 book 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.

Contents:

Professor Adebayo Adedeji: a Profile xix

Part I Mobilisation for the Implementation of Africa's Indigenous Alternative Paradigms 1

1 Forty Years of Development Illusions: Revisiting Development Policies and Practices in Africa / Mbaya Kankwenda 3

2 Mobilisation for the Implementation of Alternative Development Paradigms in 21st-Century Africa / Bade Onimode 20

3 Revisiting the African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programmes for Socio-economic Recovery and Transformation (AAF-SAP) in Contemporary Nigeria / S. O. Tomori, O. W. Tomori 30

4 The AAF-SAP: First Step on the African Path to Sustainable Human Development / Mbaya Kankwenda 49

5 The Centrality of Planning to Alternative Development Paradigms in Africa / Olu Ajakaiye 54

6 Implementation of Africa's Development Paradigms: Solution to Africa's Socio-economic Problems / Hassan A. Sunmonu 63

7 Modernisation, Globalisation and Africa's Political Economy: the Case of Nigeria / Elsie Onubogu 72

Part II Governance and Development 83

8 Governance, Security and Conflict Resolution / Peter Anyang' Nyong'o 85

9 Achieving Good Governance: the Role of Women in Policy Making / Khadija Yaya Mansaray 94

10 Contemporary External Influences on Corporate Governance: Coping with the Challenges in Africa / Ejeviome Eloho Otobo 101

Part III Obstacles to Good Governance and Development 123

11 The Refugee Problem / Julia A. Duany 125

12 The External Debt Crisis: Strategies and Policies / Mike I. Obadan 140

13 Human Development Deprivation: Water and Sanitation / Oluwafemi Odediran 165

14 Poverty and HIV/AIDS: Instruments for Regulating African Insecurity? / Yves Ekoue Amaizo 175

Part IV Regionalism and Development 189

15 Regional Economic Integration: a Development Paradigm for Africa / Lawrence O. C. Agubuzu 191

16 Transfrontier Regionalism: the European Union and Post-Colonial Africa / A. I. Asiwaju 206

Epilogue: The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) 231

NEPAD: Yet Another Plan, Initiative and New Partnership? 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1842774085

1842774093

OCLC:

51937316