Africa in crisis: new challenges and possibilities
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TextPublication details: London Pluto Press 2002Description: vi, 228pISBN: - 0-7453-1647-6
- HC 800.A55 2001
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Explores Africa's seemingly insurmountable problems, which include economical marginalization from the global market, major health crisis stemming from the destructive effects of malaria and HIV/AIDS and chronic political instability in the wake of a string of devastating civil wards across the continent. Traces the sources for the devastating problems to be oil crisis, economic mismanagement and political authoritarianism in the 1980s and 90s. Explains how Interntational financial institutions imposed structural adjustment programmes over most of sub-Saharan Africa that led to the wholesale privatization of state functions. Gives a lucidly detailed account of key issues in African development during this time, pinpoint the root causes of the crisis, and explore what lies ahead for the troubled continent in the coming decades.
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