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Global development actors such as the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty
reduction strategy framework and emphasis on local participation
address the social cost of earlier adjustment programs and help put
aid-receiving countries back in control of their own development
agenda. Drawing on the case of Ghana, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah argues
that this shift and the emphasis on partnerships between donors and
poor countries, local participation, and country ownership
simultaneously represents a substantive departure from earlier
versions of neo-liberalism and an attempt by global development
actors and local governing and social elites to justify, and
legitimize the neo-liberal policy paradigm. This book shows how the
new architecture of aid has important implications in three
distinct but related ways: the discursive construction and
production of post-colonial societies; the changing focus of
Western aid and development policy interventions; and the
reproduction of the politics of inclusive exclusion. The author
provides detailed and original research on the new development
paradigm and develops a critical theoretical approach to re-think
conventional analyses of the new discourses on aid whilst offering
a fresh, alternative interpretation of changes in international aid
relations.
Global development actors such as the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty
reduction strategy framework and emphasis on local participation
address the social cost of earlier adjustment programs and help put
aid-receiving countries back in control of their own development
agenda. Drawing on the case of Ghana, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah argues
that this shift and the emphasis on partnerships between donors and
poor countries, local participation, and country ownership
simultaneously represents a substantive departure from earlier
versions of neo-liberalism and an attempt by global development
actors and local governing and social elites to justify, and
legitimize the neo-liberal policy paradigm. This book shows how the
new architecture of aid has important implications in three
distinct but related ways: the discursive construction and
production of post-colonial societies; the changing focus of
Western aid and development policy interventions; and the
reproduction of the politics of inclusive exclusion. The author
provides detailed and original research on the new development
paradigm and develops a critical theoretical approach to re-think
conventional analyses of the new discourses on aid whilst offering
a fresh, alternative interpretation of changes in international aid
relations.
All over the world, there is growing concern about the
ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global
social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young
people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on
youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that
while young people in the region face extraordinary social
challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise
unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper
in the midst of seismic global and local social changes.
Contributors from Africa and around the world cover a wide range of
topics on African youth cultures, exploring the lives of young
people not necessarily as victims, but as active social players in
the face of a shifting, late-modernist civilization. With empirical
cases and varied theoretical approaches, the book offers a timely
scholarly contribution to debates around globalization and its
implications and impacts for Africa's youth.
All over the world, there is growing concern about the
ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global
social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young
people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on
youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that
while young people in the region face extraordinary social
challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise
unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper
in the midst of seismic global and local social changes.
Contributors from Africa and around the world cover a wide range of
topics on African youth cultures, exploring the lives of young
people not necessarily as victims, but as active social players in
the face of a shifting, late-modernist civilization. With empirical
cases and varied theoretical approaches, the book offers a timely
scholarly contribution to debates around globalization and its
implications and impacts for Africa's youth.
AFRICAN TIME In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Lord
Mawuko-Yevugah explores the challenges of political reform and
democratic governance in Africa at the beginning of the 21st
century, focusing largely on Ghana's experience. The inspiration
for the title of the collection, AFRICAN TIME, comes from Kwame
Nkrumah's pan-African optimism as well as from recent discourses
around "African Renaissance," "Africa's Century," "Africa Rising,"
etc. At Ghana's founding in 1957, Nkrumah proclaimed: 'Our
independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total
liberation of the African continent. Today, from now on, there is a
new African in the world...That new African is ready to fi ght his
own battles and show that after all, the black man is capable of
managing his own affairs'. That historic declaration,
Mawuko-Yevugah argues, did not only set the tone and direction for
Ghana's pan-African foreign policy but it has also made the country
a reference point for Africa's postcolonial tragedy in the form of
political instability and economic decay. Exploring Ghana's recent
strides in democratic consolidation within the context of fresh
attempts to reinvent pan-Africanism and mainstream good governance
on the continental development agenda, this book offers incisive,
critical and a rare refl ection on the changing landscape of
contemporary African politics and governance through the eyes of a
political journalist.
This work draws on a wide range of postcolonial and critical
development scholars to construct a critical theoretical framework
and to provide productive lens through which to make sense of the
changing language, content and practice of Western aid
interventions in Africa and other postcolonial societies, and to
reveal continuities and discontinuities in the global architecture
of aid. In particular, the study locates recent discourses on
development and poverty reduction within the broader historical
continuum of power inequalities in relation to international
development cooperation and global governance generally.
Mawuko-Yevugah argues that the new multilateral poverty reduction
framework does not represent a rupture in Western discourses,
policies, representations in Africa and other postcolonial settings
and that, conceptions such as civil society, partnership, ownership
or participation in the poverty reduction discourse produces new
technologies of governance where a IFIs- elites consensus
legitimizes the neoliberal hegemonic agenda.
Since it achieved independence in 1957, the West African state of
Ghana has become the torchbearer of African liberation, as well as
a laboratory for the study of endemic problems facing the African
continent. In terms of democratic consolidation, the country holds
a unique position on the continent as beacon of stability and
democracy. Politics, Governance, and Development in Ghana takes
critical stock of the landmark themes that have dominated its
history since independence. The contributors address issues such as
citizenship, civil society, the military, politicians, chiefs,
transnational actors, the public sector and policies, the executive
branch, decentralization, the economy, electoral politics, natural
resources, and relations with Asia and the diaspora. These themes
support “mobilizing for Ghana’s future,” which is the theme
for the diamond jubilee celebration of Ghana’s independence.
Edited by Joseph R.A. Ayee, this book will deepen the literature on
studies on Ghana especially in the areas of politics, governance,
economy and development; serve as a resource for academics,
students, practitioners; and commemorate the diamond jubilee
celebration of Ghana’s independence.
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