Beschreibung
This volume XII of the African Development Perspectives
Yearbook on AFRICA – COMMODITY DEPENDENCE, RESOURCE
CURSE AND EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION presents and analyses
policy-oriented papers, development projections, and
proposals of how to overcome African countries’ dependence
on a few primary commodities. In country cases and
comprehensive analyses, African countries’ state of
commodity dependence, their efforts to diversify exports,
and their vulnerability to crises, conflicts and disasters
are discussed. These problems are considered in the context
of the continent’s abundance of natural resources,
especially with regard to the strategic oil resources of the
continent. Resource curse problems are discussed in various
contributions, focussing on Cote d’Ivoire, Angola, Sudan,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Nigeria. Full
country cases for Nigeria and Cameroon highlight the export
diversification issues by product and function. The
implications for the required policy and institutional
changes of overcoming the resource curse problems are
analysed at the level of national, regional and sub-regional
level. Book Reviews and Book Notes are included, and News
and Information follow with up-to-date entries.
This volume builds the foundation for a comprehensive
strategy of policy reforms in Africa of how to escape the
primary commodities dilemma. Complementary to this volume
XII is volume XI on AFRICA – ESCAPING THE PRIMARY
COMMODITIES DILEMMA. Both volumes are of use for all who
work in African countries as officials, executives,
managers, researchers, and policy-makers, but also for all
those in the world-wide donor community who actively support
Africa’s development concerns at the international,
regional, country, local and project levels. Development
practitioners, government officials, business executives,
and development researchers as well as media people will
experience this volume XII and also the complementary volume
XI as indispensable sources of insight, reference and
inspiration.
