Alternative strategies for Africa: Conference on Alternative Development Strategies for Africa, Dar es Salaam, 12-14 December 1989

Abstract

The volumes contain the proceedings of the Dar es Salaam Conference called to consider alternative development strategies for Africa. Volume I contains the opening and closing addresses, the keynotes speeches and the background papers to the four workshops on debt and structural adjustment, women, politics and democracy, and the environment. Volume II deals with Africa's environmental crisis (the nature and magnitude of the continent's environmental problems, the central role of agriculture, the proper use of natural resources and the importance of popular participation) and the situation of women in education, agriculture, the informal sector and in politics (case studies from Nigeria, Botswana, Tanzania and Uganda). Volume III contains papers on the international context of the African crisis, the continent-wide effects and the ways in which specific countries have dealt with the debt problem (case studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania). Issues covered include structural adjustment programmes, the export of capital, privatization, the role of the multinationals, foreign investment regulations and political developments arising from the crisis and democratic alternatives. (DÜI-Hff)