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Policy Reform in Africa: How Effective?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Carol Lancaster
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The United Nations Special Session on the Critical Ecnomic Situation in Africa concluded in June 1986 with the Adoption of a Programme of Action which included an explicit recognition of African policy failures and the need for reform:

The endogenous aggravating factors include deficiencies in institutional and physical infrastructures, economic strategies and policies that have fallen short, in some cases, of achieving their objectives, disparities in urban and rural development and income distribution, insufficient managerial/administrative capacities, inadequate human resource development and lack of financial resources...Urgent, far reaching and imaginative economic policies are required to avert further deterioration in the economic conditions in Africa...

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Focus: African Development Revisited
Information
African Issues , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 1988 , pp. 30 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1988 

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Notes

1. United Nations, Africa: United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development-- 1986-90, UN Department of Public Information, June, 1986, p.3.

2. For an analysis by the Fund of its operations in Subsanaran Africa, see Zulu, Justin and Nsouli, Saleh, Adjustment Programs in Africa: The Recent Experience, Washington, D.C., IMF Occasional Paper No. 34, April 1985 Google Scholar.

3. For details see World Bank News, December 10, 1987, p.l.

4. “African Economic Policy Reform Program,” xerox, October 20, 1987.