Africa and Development Challenges in the New Millenium

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) was launched in late 2001 by Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal. Its founding assumptions were that African governments had to be much more self-critical of their own performance, and to take more responsibility for their own policies. On this basis, a new, more fruitful relationship with the West was to be built. This book is the first significant attempt by Africa's own scholarly community to unpack NEPAD and evaluate its practical potential. It raises key questions about the market economy, poverty, gender and regional development, and examines NEPAD's implications for agriculture, industrialization, trade, the digital divide, and the financing of future development.

Contents Preface-Adebayo Olukoshi Introduction-Jimi O. Adesina Part 1: NEPAD: the debate 1. Development and the Challenge of Poverty: NEPAD, post-Washington Consensus and Beyond - 'Jìmí O. Adésínà 2. NEPAD and the Global Political Economy: Towards the African Century or Another False Start? - Ian Taylor 3. Gender, Globalisation and Development in Africa: A Critical Examination of NEPAD - Marema Toure 4. NEPAD and its Critics - Eddy Maloka 5. Beyond Silence and Forgetting: Africa's Experience with Regional Development Frameworks -'Jìmí O. Adésínà PART 2: Sectoral Challenges 6. Africa's Agrarian Transformation: The Efficacy of the NEPAD Agriculture Strategy - Sam Moyo 7. The Industrialisation of Africa: A New Approach - Sekou Sangare 8. Proposals on the Character and Role of Trade within NEPAD: Critical Challenges and Questions - Dot Keet 9. Confronting the Digital Divide: An Interrogation of African Initiatives at Bridging the Gap - YZ Ya'u 10. NEPAD: An Answer to the Educational, Cultural and Scientific Challenges of the 21st Century? - Tayeb Chenntouf PART 3: Financing Africa's Development 11. NEPAD, Gender and the Poverty Trap: The Challenges of Financing for Development in Africa from a Gender Perspective - Zo Randriamaro 12. Development financing and experiments in development - Amady Aly Dieng 13. Can African Institutions Finance African Development? Evidence from the ECOWAS Fund - Chibuike U. Uche 14. Financing Africa's Development: Can Aid-Dependence be Avoided? - Kwasi Anyemedu 15. Reparations to Africa: An Argument for Equity and Alternative Financing in a Competitive World - Armstrong Matiu Adejo 16. The CFA Franc, African Currencies and Globalisation: A monetary vision of Africa in the 21st century - Arsène Honoré Gideon Nkama

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