Beyond Economic Liberalization in Africa: Structural Adjustment and the Alternatives

This book asserts two central questions in African development have structural adjustment programmes failed, and ought the World Bank and the IMF to be paying more attention to the particular circumstances of individual countries and to the alternative policies being proposed by Africans? Powerful case studies of education, health, public services, and import-export performance demonstrate the frequent lack of success of structural adjustment. The book looks at alternative approaches to overcoming Africa’s economic and human crises, including the importance of democracy in securing responsive state policy, the structural advantages of regional integration, sustainable development strategies, and a new partnership between state and market.