04564cam a2200877 a 4500 ocm33165052 OCoLC 20241216095136.0 950908s1996 dcu b 001 0 eng 95032540 GB9676718 bnb 007917791 Uk 0815702205 9780815702207 0815702191 9780815702191 ZBWT00739043 pot36022647 99819458689 AU@ 000011878412 DEBBG BV010868439 GEBAY 2565085 HEBIS 049469886 NLGGC 14710002X NZ1 4702151 UKBRU 127709 YDXCP 740341 YDXCP 740342 (OCoLC)33165052 eng GAFCSC LIBRARY f------ HC800 A3 Ake, Claude. Democracy and development in Africa / Claude Ake. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, 1996. x, 173 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index. The development paradigm and its politics -- Confusion of agendas -- Improbable strategies -- Blocked options -- The residual option. Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans, incomes are lower than they were two decades ago, health prospects are poorer, malnutrition is widespread, and infrastructures and social institutions are breaking down. An array of factors has been suggested to explain the apparent failure of development in Africa, including colonial legacy, social pluralism, corruption, poor planning and incompetent management, limited inflow of foreign capital, and low levels of saving and investment. Alone or in combination, these factors are serious impediments to development, but Claude Ake contends that the problem is not that development has failed, but that it was never really on the agenda. He maintains that political conditions in Africa are the greatest impediment to development. In this book, Ake traces the evolution and failure of development policies, including the IMF stabilization programs that have dominated international efforts. He believes that the authoritarian structure the African states inherited from colonial rule created a political environment that was hostile to development. Ake sketches the alternatives that are struggling to emerge from calamitous failure - economic development based on traditional agriculture, political development based on decentralization of power, and reliance on indigenous communities that have been providing some measure of refuge from the coercive power of the central state. Ake's argument may become a new paradigm for development in Africa. Since 1960 fast Pressure groups Africa. Economic development Political aspects. Democracy Africa. Groupes de pression Afrique. Subsaharan Africa. ascl (NL-LeOCL)294939369 development. ascl (NL-LeOCL)294907645 politics. ascl (NL-LeOCL)294932585 89.35 democracy. bcl Colonial influence fast Democracy fast Economic development Political aspects fast Economic history fast Economic policy fast Politics and government fast Pressure groups fast Demokratie gnd indigenous people. ilot obstacle. ilot economic implication. ilot colonialism. ilot corruption. ilot political power. ilot statistical table. ilot Economic development Africa. nli peuple autochtone. tbit obstacle. tbit Africa Economic conditions 1960- bibliography. ilot bibliographie. tbit Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1605/95032540-b.html Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1605/95032540-d.html lcc BK HC800 A3 0 NO HOLDINGS IN GHUCC - 581 OTHER HOLDINGS 3074 3074 0 0 lcc 0 0 REF GAFC GAFC GEN 2024-12-16 0 HC800 A3 2024-4645 2024-12-16 09:51:57 c.1 2024-12-16 BK