Suchergebnisse

Part A is basically a retrospective on the early years at the Africa Development Bank (ADB); in Part B, I offer a few personal views on the perplexing topic of why Africa's development performance has been so modest.

The Review of Black Political Economy (RBPE) and the Black Economic Research Center (BERC) arose from the atmosphere of the late sixties, when black nationalism was at its apex and vigorous efforts were under way to give meaning to the concepts of "black economic development" and "black capitalism." They were created as vehicles to assist black economists and economic activists to analyze and disseminate relevant data on black economic affairs and to explore and facilitate new approaches to black economic problems. RBPE offered black economists a place where they could publish their work and share it with their colleagues. The flavor of RBPE has changed somewhat over its twenty-three year life, becoming less polemical and more scholarly.

Auch wenn die Weltbank den Vorstellungen der afrikanischen Regierungen in ihren vier, seit 1981 erschienenen Sonderberichten zu den Ursachen und den Überwindungsmöglichkeiten der afrikanischen Wirtschaftskrise etwas näher gekommen ist - von den Industrieländern wird jetzt mehr und bessere Entwicklungshilfe erwartet - bleibt ein Widerspruch bestehen: die Weltbank setzt auf Export, die Regierungen Afrikas streben eine Entwicklung des Binnenmarktes an. (DÜI-Spe)

As the decade of the 1970's drew to a close, Africa's leaders were becoming concerned over the economic stagnation visibly creeping across the Continent. The dramatic escalation in energy prices, combined with the general world inflation, had palpably shifted the terms of trade against the African petroleum importers, effectively neutralizing the higher commodity prices which African exports had enjoyed in the earlier years of the decade. Per capita GDP figures, which in most of Africa had been rising since independence, had begun to slip. In some countries the physical and social infrastructure was clearly detriorating.