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Der Autor beschreibt die Kontakte des regierenden 'All People's Congress' zu der westdeutschen Firma 'LIAT Finance Trade and Construction Ltd.'. Über dieses Unternehmen versucht offenbar der südafrikanische Diamantenkonzern 'De Beers' Einfluß auf die Minenindustrie Sierra Leones zu erhalten, um diese als Vermarktungskanal zu benutzen. (DÜI-Spe)

Parfitt, Trevor: The ambiguity of participation: a qualified defence of participatory development. - S. 537-556. Williams, Glyn: Evaluating participatory development: tyranny, power and (re)politicisation. - S. 557-578

In December 1989 the European Community (EC) and 66 African, Caribbean and Pacific states (the ACP) completed negotiations on the establishment of a fourth Lomé Convention. There can be little doubt that one of the decisive factors in influencing the ACP to continue their association with the EC has been Lomé aid. The funding disbursed by the European Development Fund (EDF) has gained a reputation for its generous terms. It has also entailed relatively low conditionality, the EDF's only stipulation being that it should be spent on EC goods and services.
However, this benefit has been put at risk in the newly agreed text of Lomé 4. One of the central innovations of the revised convention will be to introduce a new level of conditionality into Lomé aid in the form of 'structural adjustment' policies. This Briefing assesses the likely impact this innovation is likely to have on the operation of the Lomé aid regime. In order to do this we shall initially review the current operation of the Lomé Convention with a view to determining how far it actually does benefit the ACP. The question of why the EC evidently feels that it is necessary to introduce structural adjustment policies into the Lomé regime will also be addressed. Finally, we shall examine how the EC is likely to implement these policies.

At the October 1985 meeting in Seoul of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, African delegates insisted that 'the economic situation is the worst in recent history'.Indeed, it is now widely accepted that the states and peoples of sub-Saharan Africa are in the midst of a crisis of unprecedented magnitude that has been caused by both short-term and long-range factors. Domestic food production has been declining, whilst food imports have increased, and this has exacerbated the televised disasters of drought and famine. The recession in western countries has led to a decline in the external demand for African primary products. Export volumes and values have decreased overall, producing significant fiscal problems, and the resulting foreign-exchange shortages have meant industrial stoppages, an inability to replace infrastructures, and a decline in the gross domestic product.

Analyse der Größenordnung der gegenwärtigen Verschuldung und der Schuldenkrise in Afrika. Diskussion der Aussichten, dieses Problem zu lösen vor dem Hintergrund der kürzlichen Initiativen der Industrieländer und des IWF im Hinblick auf diese Situation sowie der von Nigeria, dem am höchsten verschuldeten Land in Afrika, verfolgten Taktik. Über die vom IWF verfolgte Politik herrschen besonders kontroverse Ansichten vor. Der sogenannte Baker-Plan und andere Lösungsmodelle. Zu erwarten ist eine weitere Verschlechterung der afrikanischen Verschuldungssituation, worauf die Reaktion des Nordens darauf als nicht ausreichend erscheint. (DÜI-Hlb)