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Economic Development in Africa 2003
Trade Performance and Commodity Dependence
This report reviews the structure and composition of Africa’s trade along with the associated problems of commodity dependence. It also attempts to place in perspective the reasons for Africa’s poor performance and its declining share in world trade. In addition the report appeals for a new international initiative on commodities consonant with the development needs of African countries.
Economic Development in Africa 2002
From Adjustment to Poverty Reduction - What Is New?
Previous reports by the UNCTAD secretariat have examined the steps that need to be taken in the trading system and in international development finance cooperation to create the requisite external conditions for sustained and rapid growth in sub-Saharan Africa. This Report assesses issues of institutional reform governance and corruption and examines controversies regarding the relation between growth and poverty reduction the effects of macroeconomic policies on poverty and the impact of conditional aid and external financing. The first section assesses the extent to which greater participation in and country ownership of programmes are secured and policy aspirations of the poor are met. Next is a review of approaches now adopted in various areas of economic policy and institutional reform. The concluding section summarizes the main findings of the report and discusses the extent to which the new approach constitutes an improvement over the former structural adjustment policies and holds out promise of a better outcome.
Economic Development in Africa 2001
Performance, Prospects and Policy Issues
This report reviews Africa’s development in the 1990s and analyses the domestic and external impediments to sustained and rapid growth in Africa. It discusses inter alia policy options for enhancing growth and development in Africa in order to meet the objectives set forth by the international community including that of reducing poverty by half by the year 2015 as contained in the Millennium Declaration. It draws on previous research done in UNCTAD on African development as well as on new research particularly with respect to investment savings and growth and trade performance and terms of trade.