Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment
Thandika Mkandawire and Charles C. Soludo
Adjustment was designed for Africa, but rarely with Africans.
Written by two leading African economists, this manifesto challenged the Washington Consensus prescriptions of structural adjustment and argued for development strategies rooted in African conditions, with a capable, activist state guiding investment and industrialization. Emerging from CODESRIA debates, it voiced an African critique of externally imposed reform and helped set the agenda for later work on developmental states and homegrown policy.
Its legacy. It articulated an African alternative to the Washington Consensus.
- Author
- Thandika Mkandawire and Charles C. Soludo
- First published
- 1999
- Genre
- Development economics
- Theme
- Political Economy and Development
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999
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