
The State They're In
An Agenda for International Action on Poverty in Africa
Published: 2006
Pages: 201
eBook: 9781780440385
Paperback: 9781853396403
1. Introduction: A Summary of the Argument
2. Africa in 2005: the long view: Five dimensions of Africa’s problems
3. The truth about trade: Trade policy debates; The role of development states; ‘Policy space’ and anti-developmental states; Summing up
4. Aid, debt relief and conditionality: The case for (more) aid; The conditionality debate; The politics of conditionality; An impasse for NGOs and donors; Summing up
5. The limits of ‘governance’: Africa’s record on governance; The rise and fall of governance reform; Assessing the governance problem
6. Politics in Africa: The roots of clientelism; Managing instability (or not); The multi-party variant of clientelism
7. The state they’re in: Explaining weak states; The impact of economic reforms;
8. Are developmental states now emerging in Africa?: Botswana; Uganda; Ghana; Tanzania; Mozambique; An open verdict
9. What will a developmental state in Africa look like?: Political form; Access to the state; Leadership
10. Towards developmental states in Africa – what agenda for international action?:
An agenda for aid; An agenda for trade; An agenda for coherence; An agenda for the UK government; An agenda for campaigning NGOs
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Matthew Lockwood
Matthew Lockwood is a consultant with twenty years’ experience of working in and visiting Africa. Since the late 1990s he has worked in several senior policy and campaigning positions in major UK Development NGOs and for many years has undertaken extensive research in, and lectured on, sociology and development issues with specific reference to Africa.