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PIA 2574. African Development Seminar. The Economy: Markets and Planning. Historical African Development Issues. The Concept of "Indigenization:“ Localization process Personnel Indigenization (Africanization, Indianization,) Representative Bureaucracy.
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PIA 2574 African Development Seminar
Historical African Development Issues • The Concept of "Indigenization:“ • Localization process • Personnel Indigenization (Africanization, Indianization,) • Representative Bureaucracy
African Historical Development Issues • Equity- Fixed percentage of ownership • 49% local content requirements • Nationalization with or without Compensation (State Socialism) • Joint Venture Programs- management contracts
The World Economic Regime • The Importance of the Market • End of the Command Economy • World Market: Only game in Town?
Market Debates • Impact of world economy on Domestic Economies: Development of underdevelopment • Questions of conflict: pluralist vs. hegemonic models in the post-war world • Economic change vs. political development- Is governance (democracy) a pre-requisite?
Market Issues • Complementarity problem • Origins of capital • Market failure? • The end of the Command Economy
Statistics- Forty Years of Independence • Social: Illiteracy- 60-75% illiterate • Population: Growth vs. HIV/AIDs • 3-4 percent per year • 50% less than 15 years of age • 20-25% HIV positive in Southern Africa • Loss of Primacy of Nation State
StatisticsHealth: Losing the Battle? Malaria Yellow Fever Schistosomiasis/bilharzia Sleeping Sickness Kwashiorkor HIV/AIDs
Forty Years of Independence • Agriculture: Subsistence: soils/rain/desertification • Decline in food production (cash crops and urbanization) • Terms of Trade and Debt • Price decline for Primary products • Economic collapse- one third of Africa
Economic Growth • Economic: Fourth World- less than 1% growth • Fourth World • $100-$365 per year
Growth • 1957 100% • 1961 95% • 1981 50% • Now: 55-60% Goal: Back to the Future
Economic and Social Development: Liberalism and Markets • Social Norms and Production • Economic predictability • Alternatives to private investment • Globalization and international capital • Africa and the World Economic System: Odd Continent Out?
Primacy of Nation State:How Sovereign? • Impact of transnational actors • Issue of micro-states • Rational Actor model- public or social choice theory- collective choice is non-rational? • The role of international regimes- UN, World Bank, IMF, etc. Globalization and International Order
Discussion The Impact of Gobalization on Africa?
The Issue of Transitional States NICs Newly Industrializing Countries in Asia and Latin America:
The Issue of Transitional States • Tigers: Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan • Kittens: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia- Want to be Tigers • "Tails": India, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico. Tigers with long poverty tails.
The Issue of Transitional States • Why no NICs in Africa? • What about South Africa? • Autonomous vs. Dependent Development?
African Successes: Oil • Nigeria • Gabon • Cameroon • Angola, Chad, Sudan?
African Successes: No Oil • South Africa • Kenya • Botswana • Ivory Coast* • Zimbabwe* *Bad Politics
Issues of markets and productivity • International systemic hegemony and international competition within markets • Technical Assistance- bias to international trade • Back to the future- get the LDC economy back to the 1950s: what then? • Dependent development- is it dependent and is it development?
Financial and Budgetary Management Systems in Africa Six historical periods 1.Until the 1950s- recurrent budgets- law and order 2.1950s-1960s growth. Domestic development Funds with bilateral technical assistance 3.Recurrent vs. Development budgets
Financial and Budgetary Management Systems in Africa 4.1960s-1970s: Distribution and basic needs. World Bank and Poorest of the poor 5.Mid-1970s-1980- Planning vs. Budgets 6.1980s- Structural Adjustment "non-budgetary" allocations vs. incremental budgeting (define)
Planning vs. Budgets • donor monies drive the system in the degenerated state • planning demanded by technical assistance • Technical assistance- both grants and loans (no private loans to Africa) • project planning "wins" over national planning and budgeting systems
African Economies: Discussion What kind of an economy works for Africa? • Capitalism • Socialism • Economy of Affection • Dependent Development?
African Economies: Discussion • Why should the Northern Tier states care about Africa? • What are the regional economies in Francophone Africa, in Eastern and Southern Africa? Is there a common West African Economy? • Which of your writers say important things about economic development?