Table of Contents

1. Forty Years of Development Illusions: Revisiting Development Policies and Practices in Africa - Mbaya Kankwenda
2. Mobilisation for the Implementation of Alternative Development Paradigms in 21st-Century Africa - Bade Onimode
3. Revisiting the African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programmes for Socio-economic Recovery and Transformation (AAF-SAP) in Contemporary Nigeria - S O Tomori and O W Tomori
4. The AAF-SAP: First Step on the African Path to Sustainable Human Development - Mbaya Kankwenda
5. The Centrality of Planning to Alternative Development Paradigms in Africa - Olu Ajakaiye
6. Implementation of Africa's Development Paradigms - Solution to Africa's Socio-economic Problems - Hassan A Sunmonu
7. Modernisation, Globalisation and Africa's political economy: the case of Nigeria - Elsie Onubogu
8. Governance, Security and Conflict Resolution - Peter Anyang' Nyong'o
9. Achieving Good Governance: the Role of Women in Policy Making - Khadija Yaya Mansaray
10. Contemporary External Influences on Corporate Governance: Coping with the Challenges in Africa - Ejeviome Eloho Otobo
11. The Refugee Problem - Julia Duany
12. The External Debt Crisis: Strategies and Policies - Mike I Obadan
13. Human Development Deprivation: Water and Sanitation - Oluwafemi Odediran
14. Poverty and HIV/AIDS - Instruments for Regulating African Insecurity? - Yves Ekoue Amaizo
15. Regional Economic Integration: a Development Paradigm for Africa - Lawrence O C Agubuzu
16. Transfrontier Regionalism: the European Union and Post-Colonial Africa - A I Asiwaju
EPILOGUE: The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) - Yet Another Plan, Initiative and New Prtnership?

Promotional Information

NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa's Development, is an attempt to chart a new course of good governance and effective development for the continent. In this book, African economists and social scientists reflect on its previous experience with alternatives to structural adjustment.

About the Author

Adebayo Adedeji, in whose honour this book has been compiled, has had a distinguished career as a scholarly economist, a public servant, and as Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. The editor, Bade Onimode, was professor of economics at Ibadan University until his unexpected early death in 2002. The contributors include some of Africa's best economists. The books is published in association with the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS).