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The end of development?: modernity, post-modernity and development
In: Third World in global politics
Countdown to ecstasy: development as eschatology
In: Third world quarterly, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 635-648
ISSN: 0143-6597
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Europe's Mediterranean designs: an analysis of the Euromed relationship with special reference to Egypt
In: Third world quarterly, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 865-881
ISSN: 0143-6597
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The decline of Eurafrica?: Lome's mid-term review
In: Review of African political economy, Band 23, Heft 67, S. 53-66
ISSN: 0305-6244
Der vorliegende Text gibt eine differenzierte Analyse des Lome-Prozesses von seinen Anfängen 1975 bis zu den jüngsten Lome-Verhandlungen. Die leitende Fragestellung zielt auf eine Einschätzung der Zukunftsperspektive der Lome-Verträge. Vor dem Hintergrund des wachsenden Interesses der EU an wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen zu Osteuropa ist ein abnehmendes Interesse der EU an den AKP-Staaten zu verzeichnen. Dennoch hält der Autor ein völliges Auslaufen des Lome-Prozesses für wenig wahrscheinlich. (DÜI-Spl)
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Adjustment for stabilisation or growth? Ghana and the Gambia
In: Review of African political economy, Band 22, Heft 63
ISSN: 1740-1720
Ghana and The Gambia are part of the group of African states that have been following programmes of structural adjustment (SAPs) throughout most of the 1980s and into the 1990s. They are also amongst the states that the Bretton Woods institutions (BWIs) have periodically cited as success stories for adjustment. The aims of adjustment policies are well known to analysts of African political economy. Their theoretical foundations lie within a brand of neo‐classical economics that emphasises the advantages of nonintervention in the free market and, conversely, the risks attendant on state attempts to regulate or intervene in the market. It follows that this line of thought anathematises the attempts of various African states to promote indigenous industrial development. State spending on such aims is deemed inflationary and wasteful inasmuch as it is believed to promote inefficient industries that can only survive on the basis of state subsidisation and protection against foreign competition. State concentration on the industrial sector can also be seen as providing a disincentive to those sectors of the economy that are actually productive, notably the rural sector, since it is the producers in the latter sectors that have to foot the bill for state intervention.
Structural adjustment is designed to counteract these tendencies through a variety of policy measures, including imposition of limits on fiscal and public spending policies in order to limit inflationary and wasteful state expenditure; deregulation and privatisation which are also designed to reduce state spending; liberalisation of the tariff regime in order to ensure that the productive sectors are opened up to market competition and therefore have to use resources efficiently; and devaluation which is necessary to counteract the tendency towards overvaluation of the currency that results from the pursuit of inflationary policies. An examination of the economic policies of many African states (including Ghana and The Gambia) suggests they have fallen into these very traps. The BWIs have therefore insisted that such states must undergo structural adjustment so that they will utilise their resources more efficiently — in accordance with the free market, that is. Only through taking this course can the foundations for growth be laid argue the BWIs. The following case studies examine how the conditions for growth actually have been attained in Ghana and The Gambia, paying particular attention to the issue of how far adjustment policies are conducive to industrial growth.
Adjustment for stabilisation or growth?: Ghana and The Gambia
In: Review of African political economy, Band 22, Heft 63, S. 55-72
ISSN: 0305-6244
Ghana und Gambia galten lange Zeit als erfolgreiche Beispiele für die Strukturanpassungsprogramme von IWF und Weltbank. Ihnen ist in den Jahren seit Einführung der ersten Programme (1980) eine Stabilisierung der Wirtschaft gelungen. Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht die Auswirkungen der Programme auf die Entwicklung makroökonomischer Größen und die einheimische Industrie. Letztlich kommt der Autor zu dem Schluß, daß die wirtschaftliche Lage zwar verbessert wurde, die Abhängigkeit der Wirtschaft von wenigen Exportgütern und damit ihre Verwundbarkeit jedoch nicht verändert wurden. (DÜI-Spl)
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Which African agenda for the "nineties"?: the ECA/World Bank alternatives
In: Journal of international development, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 93-106
Gegenüber der Weltbank, die Strukuranpassung als Entwicklungsstrategie für Afrika in den 90er Jahren definiert und staatliche Interventionen auf Infrastruktur und Dienstleistungen beschränken will, betont der ECA-Vorschlag ökonomische Diversifizierung und eine aktivere Rolle des Staates und erscheint insgesamt tragfähiger, trotz Zweifel an der Kapazität der afrikanischen Staaten. (DSE)
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Which African agenda for the 'nineties? The ECA/world bank alternatives
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 93-106
ISSN: 1099-1328
REVIEW ARTICLE - African Alternatives to Structural Adjustment Programmes (AA-SPP): A Framework for Transformation and Recovery (see abstract of review in SOPODA 15:2)
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 93-106
ISSN: 0954-1748
Which African Agenda for the 'Nineties? The ECA/World Bank Alternatives
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 93-106
ISSN: 0954-1748
Third world politics: A comparative introduction. By Paul Cammack, David Pool and William Tordoff. (London, MacMillan, 1988, pp.308, £25.00)
In: Journal of international development: the journal of the Development Studies Association, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 277-278
ISSN: 1099-1328
Reviews
In: Review of African political economy, Band 17, Heft 47
ISSN: 1740-1720
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: The World Bank/ECA Structural Adjustment Controversy
Equals, Clients, or Dependents? A.C.P. relations with the E.E.C. under the lomé conventions - Collective Clientelism: the Lomé Conventions and North-South relations by John Ravenhill New York, Columbia University Press, 1985, Pp. xxi+389. $49.00
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 717-723
ISSN: 1469-7777
Sierra Leone: wide open to South Africa?
In: Review of African political economy, Band 14, Heft 38
ISSN: 1740-1720