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In 1992 the World Bank launched the Africa's Management in the 1990s research program, a comprehensive study of the issues of institutional capacity building in Sub-Saharan Africa and its effects on economic and social development. This report focuses on the program and on how to implement its main message: institutions must be both rooted in the local context and culture and open to outside challenges and influences. Chapters focus on the institutional aspects of capacity building, best practices in public administration, indigenous private sector development, and a framework for reconciliation between institutions.
Examines the continent's most pressing issues in a year of presidential campaign debate and offers options for a new administration. Paper, ed. $12.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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The institutional crisis affecting economic management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a crisis of structural disconnect between formal institutions transplanted from outside and indigenous institutions born of the culture and traditional values of the African past. Building on the findings and recommendations of the new school of institutional economics, the study, Africa's management in the 1990s and beyond: Reconciling Indigenous and Transplanted Institutions (AM90s) posits that both formal and informal institutions are needed in Africa, but in a more flexible and adapted form. Formal institutions need to be adapted to the local culture/context, in order to build the legitimacy needed for enforceability. Informal institutions, although rooted in local culture, also need to adapt to the changing outside world and challenges. It is through this adaptation that formal and informal institutions can converge be reconciled and build on each other's strengths, transaction costs reduced and institutional performance maximized. This process for building convergence is at the heart of the institutional reconciliation paradigm proposed by the AM90s research program and calls for a truly participatory and synergistic approach. This institutional reconciliation is both possible and necessary to make civil services in SSA more service-oriented, develop the private sector, and improve the productivity of African enterprise.
George Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions presents a detailed and convincing picture of pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa - its cultures, traditions, and indigenous institutions, including participatory democracy.
As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.' This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role of governance in African development. The goal of the book is to move beyond the status quo debates about 'structural adjustment' and to look at all the public and civic institutions which are likely to play a critical role if Africa is to overcome its economic crisis.
Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic and social plight of Africa lies in better policies, good governance, and, more importantly, a new type of African leader and citizen.
Offering a re-conceptualization of our understanding of management in Africa, this work includes results of organizational surveys taken across a range of sectors in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria and Cameroon.
Chapters on the role of internationalization, link between strategy, structure and Human resource management, mergers and acquisitions.
The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.