The state they're in : an agenda for international action on poverty in Africa / Matthew Lockwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lockwood, Matthew.

Series:

Viewpoints (Intermediate Technology Development Group)

Viewpoints

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Africa.

Poverty.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xiv, 194 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Rugby : Practical Action Pub., 2006.

Summary:

In 2005 the best-selling first edition of Matthew Lockwood's The State They're In examined the roots of poverty in Africa, and asked how a better understanding of African politics can contribute to an entirely new policy agenda for aid, trade, and debt. One year on from the Gleneagles G8 meeting, this second edition investigates the outcomes of the summit, and the WTO summit in Hong Kong in December 2005. It broadens the scope of the first edition to include the American approach to aid and the new transformational diplomacy agenda. With governance issues now centre stage of policy debates on Africa, Lockwood explains why the standard approaches to governance will not work and clarifies how his arguments differ from those approaches.

Contents:

Introduction

Africa in 2005: the long view

The truth about trade

Aid, debt relief and conditionality

The limits of 'governance'

Politics in Africa

The state they're in

Are developmental states now emerging in Africa?

What will a developmental state in Africa look like?

Towards developmental states in Africa-what agenda for international action?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-185) and index.

ISBN:

1853396400

OCLC:

77106610