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Title:Bumps on the Road: A Critique of How Africa Got to NEPAD (New Partnership for African Development)
Author:Appiagyei-Atua, Kwadwo
Year:2006
Periodical:African Human Rights Law Journal
Volume:6
Issue:2
Pages:524-548
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:economic policy
North-South relations
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
Politics and Government
Inter-African Relations
Abstract:This article explores the notion of 'political independence without economic independence' in the context of the decision made by African States to embrace the market-based neoliberal economic path to development. The paper analyses, in a rights-based context, the ideological battle that has been waged between Western powers and African States (through the now defunct OAU and the United Nations) in terms of defining and controlling the agenda for the economic development of Africa. It examines the economic policies developed by African and other developing States, such as the New International Economic Order (NIEO), the right to development, the revised framework for NIEO, the Lagos Plan of Action, the structural adjustment programme (SAP), Africa's Programme for Economic Recovery 1986-1990 (APPER, later converted into the UN Programme of Action for Africa's Economic Recovery and Development, UN-PAAERD), the African Charter for Popular Participation and finally, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). The decision by African leaders to design and adopt NEPAD as the framework for economic development is a further confirmation of the entrenched economic dependence of African States. It reveals the extent to which Western States continue to dictate, control and overrule attempts by African States to set their own economic agenda. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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