ISBN:
0-86232-891-8
,
0-86232-890-X
,
0-7974-0928-9
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 189 Seiten
,
Tabellen
Keywords:
Afrika Tansania
;
Kenia
;
Äthiopen
;
Sudan
;
Sambia
;
Wirtschaft
;
Entwicklung, wirtschaftliche
;
Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
;
Wirtschaftlicher Wandel
;
Krise
;
Krisenbewältigung
;
Kredit
;
Demokratisierung
;
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
;
Rohstoff
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Wirtschaft, informelle
;
Internationaler Währungsfonds
;
International Monetary Fund 〉 Internationaler Währungsfonds
Abstract:
In this penetrating new analysis of the African crisis Fantu Cheru ascribes its origin to the misguided strategy of export-led development rather than natural factors such as drought and famine. Through hard-hitting case studies of Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Zamba, he dismisses the World Banks's Berg Report and the African-initiated Lagos Plan of Action as blueprints for the recolonization of Africa. Similarly, he rejects the West's multiplying number of debt-reduction plans as being little more than 'old wine in new bottles'. There can be no end to Africa's misdevelopment, he concludes, without the emergencce of real democracy. In its absence, Fantu Cheru praises the 'silent revolution' of ordinary Africans, opting out of the formal market and developing a parallel barter economy, impervious to the machinations of their rulers and the IMF.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Glossary -- 1. The Garden of Eden Revisited. Sombre consensus. Why has African development gone wrong? The debate about Africa's future. Explaining the predicament: the OAU response. The view from below: Does poor people's knowledge matter? Beyond survival strategy: Decolonization at the grassroots -- 2. Africa: Debt-Bondage or Self-Reliance? An issue of life or debt? Structure of LLDC African debt. Immediate causes of the crisis. Africa and the Bretton Woods institutions -- 3. Tanzania: Suffering with Bitterness. The cause of the crisis. Crisis and the national economic survival programme. 1982-85. Implementation of SAP. The national recovery programme, 1986-90. Exposing the IMF model: the limits of structural adjustment. Is the IMF the enemy of the poor? What is to be done: expansion or consolidation -- 4. Kenya: A Tarnished 'Miracle'. Priorities in development policy. The structure and performance of the Kenyan economy. Foreign capital and the Kenyan state. Crisis and structural adjustment. 1980-85. Policy dialogue and tripartite intervention. Summary -- 5. Ethiopia and Sudan: The Fabrication of Hunger. Sudan: the deepening crisis. Post-revolutionary Ethiopia: no shortcuts to socialism. Whose development, whose problem? -- 6. Zambia: The IMFs Newest 'Bantustan'. Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. The limits of import-substitution. Neglect of agriculture. The IMF and Zambia: liberalization or deindustrialization? Zambia's worst year. The auctioning of a nation. Aid as imperialism. Kaunda said: None but ourselves! Conclusions -- 7. Rethinking Development: Conditionally or Democracy? A critique of proposed solutions. Official Third World governments' positions. Official Western response. Western and African NGOs' response. Official African position. Towards another development in Africa: a new initiative. Concluding remarks -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 175 - 184
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