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Title: | What is Rational When Rationality Isn't? Comments on the Administrative Proposals of the Berg Report |
Author: | Leonard, David K. |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | Rural Africana |
Volume: | 19-20 |
Period: | Spring/Fall |
Pages: | 99-113 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Africa |
Subjects: | economic policy development plans Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade Politics and Government |
Abstract: | By common consent African economic development is suffering from the poor administrative performance of its governments. To cure the antidevelopmental policies of African governments and their low levels of administrative capacity, the World Bank report on 'Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for Action' (1981) prescribes large doses of market discipline and economic planning and management. However, is Western economic rationality rational in comtemporary Africa or, in other words, are the recommendations of the report politically viable in most African countries? The author addresses this question within the context of rural development. Ref. |