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The impact of structural adjustment on regional integration in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of the Economic Community of West African States and the Southern African Development Community.

机译：结构调整对撒哈拉以南非洲区域一体化的影响：以西非国家经济共同体和南部非洲发展共同体为例。

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Since the mid-1970s, the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have been enmeshed in severe economic decline. In response to the challenges of reversing the trend of economic decline and restoring sustainable growth and development, two key strategies have been adopted—regional economic integration and structural adjustment programs (SAPs). SAPs are a set of “free market” economic policy reforms imposed on developing countries by the Bretton Woods institutions as a condition for receipt of loans.;In their basic orientation, SAPs have generally emphasized the development of outward-oriented trade regimes to be brought about through unilateral trade liberalization. In addition, the programs have been designed for and have focused upon individual countries, dealing specifically with national and sectoral entities. Regional integration based on collective self-reliance, on the other hand, is the preferred African strategy for socio-economic development. It is inward-looking by nature and focuses on coordinated community-based projects and the harmonization of economic policies of partner states. There is a general consensus in Africa that the integration of African economies is crucial for their sustainable development. On the basis of this consensus, a number of sub-regional integration schemes have been developed. There has, however, been little attention paid in the literature as to how the policies of structural adjustment affect regional cooperation and integration in Sub-Saharan Africa.;Utilizing historical and comparative analyses, this study examines the relationship between structural adjustment and regional integration with a view to determining how SAPs accelerate or hinder regional integration process in Sub-Saharan Africa, using the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) as case studies.;The study establishes that the divergent ideologies which inform the two key development models—neo-liberalism and structuralism—render them incompatible strategies for a simultaneous implementation. Whereas economic neo-liberalism is committed to the construction of an international capitalist system based on global free trade, the African model of regional integration is dedicated to a partial de-linking from the global economic system in order to develop the sub-regions. The study also examines the various policy prescription of SAPs, such as exchange rate adjustment, trade liberalization and privatization, and shows how these prescriptions thwart the efforts by African countries to establish viable regional economic integration arrangements on the continent.
机译：自1970年代中期以来，撒哈拉以南非洲国家陷入了严重的经济衰退。为应对逆转经济下滑趋势和恢复可持续增长与发展的挑战，已采取了两项关键战略：区域经济一体化和结构调整计划（SAP）。 SAP是布雷顿森林机构对发展中国家实施的一系列“自由市场”经济政策改革，以作为获得贷款的条件。；在其基本方向上，SAP总体上强调了要发展的外向型贸易体制。通过单方面贸易自由化。此外，这些方案是为个别国家设计的，并侧重于个别国家，专门与国家和部门实体打交道。另一方面，基于集体自力更生的区域一体化是非洲社会经济发展的首选战略。它本质上是内向型的，专注于基于社区的协调项目和伙伴国经济政策的协调。非洲普遍达成共识，非洲经济一体化对非洲的可持续发展至关重要。在这种共识的基础上，制定了许多次区域一体化计划。然而，关于结构调整政策如何影响撒哈拉以南非洲区域合作与一体化的文献很少关注。通过历史和比较分析，本研究考察了结构调整与区域一体化之间的关系。旨在通过西非国家经济共同体（ECOWAS）和南部非洲发展共同体（SADC）的案例研究来确定SAP如何加速或阻碍撒哈拉以南非洲地区的区域一体化进程。研究确定了不同的意识形态告知新自由主义和结构主义这两个主要的发展模型，使它们不能同时实施而互不兼容。经济新自由主义致力于建立基于全球自由贸易的国际资本主义体系，而非洲的区域一体化模式则致力于与全球经济体系部分脱钩，以发展次区域。该研究还研究了SAP的各种政策规定，例如汇率调整，贸易自由化和私有化，并显示了这些规定如何阻碍非洲国家在非洲建立可行的区域经济一体化安排的努力。

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    Andoh, Nat Kobina.;

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    Howard University.;

  • 授予单位 Howard University.;
  • 学科 Economics General.;Political Science General.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1999
  • 页码 336 p.
  • 总页数 336
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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