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This collection of six essays by leading African authorities provides a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on Sub-Saharan Africa, and the alternative avenues for resolving the continent’s current economic and political crisis. The volume, which also contains discussion of the essays by other academics and policy-makers, represents a thorough examination of the change in official policy on the poorest and most marginalized of the world’s regions. Essays include: The Dimensions of the African Crisis (Adebayo Adedeji); The Legitimacy Crisis of the State (Claud Ake); The Peasant Question and the Contemporary Crisis (Mahmood Mamdani); What Next for African Women? (Marie-Anglique Savan); The View from the World Bank (Dunstan Wai); The Social Dimensions of Structural Adjustment (Sheila Smith). Other Banking, Economics & Finance Books 2002 – Lehrbuch Der Nationalkonomie / Teaching Guide to Economics Volume III/ Book 2: The Active Causes in the Ongoing Economic Process 2003 – Coffee Oversupply and the Need for Managed-Trade Regimes 1991 – Taiwan’s Political and Economic Growth in the Late 20th Century
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