The
crisis of development strategies in eastern Africa
Abstract
Chole,
E. [Eshetu Chole]; Mlay, W.; Oyugi, W. (eds.)
OSSREA, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). 1990. 285p.
2. OSSREA Congress. Critical Analysis of Development Policies in Eastern Africa,
Eldoret (Kenya), 28-31 Jul 1986.
Compilation
of papers selected from those presented at OSSREA's second triennial congress,
which was held under the theme of a critical analysis of development policies in
eastern Africa, the work highlights the range and magnitude of development
problems in the region and proposes possible solutions. After an introductory
chapter which summarizes subsequent ones, the papers deal with three main
issues, viz., impact of exogenous factors such as world politics and
participation in the world economy, structural adjustment programmes mandated by
the IMF, food aid, foreign aid, and foreign policy on the process of development
in the region; institutional problems of development such as politics, public
sector philosophy, privatization and. management of public enterprises; and
policies pertaining to the provision of housing, industrial developn1ent and
educational development. The papers are titled: "The external environment
of development in East Africa: An overview", "The IMF debate and the
politics of demobilization in Tanzania", "Food aid and food dependency
in Ethiopia", "Foreign assistance and local capacity building in
Tanzania", "Aid, dependency and civil war in the Southern Sudan",
"The effect of foreign policy on national development: The experience of
Kenya", "The pathology of institution building: The Uganda case",
"A public sector without a public philosophy: The case of Uganda",
"Privatization in Africa: Premises and prospects", "Management of
public enterprises: Some aspects of mining and development of public enterprise
personnel in Botswana", "Lessons for Kenya from Indonesian housing
policies", "Constraints to industrial development in Ethiopia",
and "Some aspects of educational development in Kenya since independence:
An appraisal”.