From Conflict to Recovery in Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-926103-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 637 g

Establishing peace and reconstructing Africa's war-damaged economies are urgent challenges. For Africa to recover, communities must reconstruct, private sectors must revitalize, and states must transform themselves. Thus, unless communities rebuild and strengthen their livelihoods, neither reconstruction nor growth can be poverty-reducing. But communities cannot prosper unless private investment recreates markets and generates more employment. And neither communities nor entrepreneurs can realise their potential without a development state-one that is democratically accountable and dedicated to poverty-reducing development. The international community can do much to assist-through more aid, debt relief, and peacekeeping-but ultimately the future lies in the hands of Africans themselves.

This book examines these themes in a selection of African countries that have gone through intense and prolonged conflict, and its policy conclusions are important for understanding the prospects for peace and recovery not only in Africa, but also in other 'post-conflict' societies across the world. It also discusses the cross-cutting issues of how economic and political reform interact with conflict resolution and 'post-conflict' reconstruction. This interaction is often neglected by both governments and donors. However, reform and reconstruction cannot be kept separate if conflict is to be halted and poverty reduced.

The book is one of the first to undertake a thorough examination of the economic dimensions of recovery from war. It places particular emphasis on designing a recovery in which the poor participate, so that the benefits of reconstruction from war do not just flow to a narrow élite. In highlighting the tensions and opportunities that exist in achieving recovery from war, it contributes not only to the debate on economic policy making in Africa, but also to the design of better reconstruction and reform programmes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Addison, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Themes

- 1: Tony Addison: Introduction and Overview

- 2: Tony Addison: From Conflict to Recovery?

- Part II: Reconstructing Communities

- 3: Mário Adauta de Sousa, Tony Addison, Björn Ekman, and Åsa Stenman: From Humanitarian Assistance to Poverty Reduction in Angola

- 4: Clara de Sousa: Rebuilding Rural Livelihoods and Social Capital in Mozambique

- 5: Gaim Kibreab: Displaced Communities and the Reconstruction of Livelihoods in Eritrea

- 6: Daniel Ayalew, Stefan Dercon, and Pramila Krishnan: Demobilization, Land, and Household Livelihoods in Ethiopia

- 7: Arne Bigsten: Selecting Priorities for Poverty Reduction and Human Development in Ethiopia

- Part III: Revitalizing Private Sectors

- 8: Renato Aguilar: Angola's Incomplete Transition

- 9: Marc Wuyts: The Agrarian Question in Mozambique's Transition and Reconstruction

- 10: Carlos Castel-Branco and Chris Cramer, with Degol Hailu: Privatization and Economic Strategy in Mozambique

- 11: Tony Addison and Alemayehu Geda: Ethiopia's New Financial Sector and its Regulation

- Part IV: Transforming States

- 12: Göte Hansson: Building New States: Lessons from Eritrea

- 13: Jens Kovsted and Finn Tarp: Reconstruction, Reform, and State Capacity in Guinea-Bissau

- 14: David Bevan: The Fiscal Dimensions of Ethiopia's Transition and Reconstruction

- 15: Tony Addison and Leonce Ndikumana: Overcoming the Fiscal Crisis of the African State

- Part V: Conclusions

- 16: Tony Addison: Communities, Private Sectors, and States

Über Autor(innen)

Tony Addison is Deputy Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) of the United Nations University. He was previously Director of the Programme in Quantitative Development Economics at the University of Warwick, UK, and has been on the economics faculties of the universities of Warwick and London (School of Oriental and African Studies). He has also been a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, and has acted as consultant for DFID, ILO, UNICEF, and the World Bank. His current interests are in reconstruction from conflict, fiscal policy in low-income countries, and the debt problems of poor countries.