Structural stability in an african context

Structural Stability is a particular focus for reconceptualising developmental strategy and development aid and has provoked unfore-seen responses in the course of a recent, mainly German debate. This debate began late in 2000 when a number of prominent German scholars in African Studies initi [...]
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Structural Stability is a particular focus for reconceptualising developmental strategy and development aid and has provoked unfore-seen responses in the course of a recent, mainly German debate. This debate began late in 2000 when a number of prominent German scholars in African Studies initiated a policy dialogue through a widely circulated and publicly discussed "Afrika Memorandum" centred on the notion of structural stability. Its arguments are relevantnot only to a German audience but offer stimulating and thought-provoking inputs into the debate in the wider European context on bilateral and multilateral relations with Africa. This Discussion Paper presents the revised contributions to a Consulta- tive Workshop on Structural Stability in an African Context that took place at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala on 31 March and1 April 2003.Dr. Anders Danielson teaches in theDepartment of Economics, Lund University. Dr. Robert Kappel is Professor of Economics at the Institute for African Studies, University of Leipzig. Dr.Andreas Mehler is Director of the Institute for African Studies in Hamburg. Dr. Henning Melber is Research Director at the Nordic Africa Institute.