2008
DOI: 10.4314/ajia.v11i1.57259
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Africa’s Quest for Long-Term Development: Does NEPAD Provide the Necessary Policy Framework?

Abstract: Globalisation can hardly be said to have caused Africa's contemporary predicaments. However, it is clear that it continues to exacerbate them by posing diverse challenges to local and global governance and security. This paper demonstrates how the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), launched in 2003 to promote security and development, may be another hoax in Africa's search for appropriate development models, especially given the character and fall-outs of globalisation on the continent. It raise… Show more

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“…At the theoretical level, governance affects health outcomes through both direct and indirect channels. Indirectly, governance stimulates economic growth or the national income (Akokpari, 2008; Anyanwu, 2014), which subsequently determines the disposable income of households (Hu & Mendoza, 2013; Klomp & De Haan, 2008). Therefore, household income may also influence access to improved water and sanitation, nutrition, housing, female education, and other household level factors that may have an impact on access to quality healthcare in general and child mortality rates in particular (Rajkumar & Swaroop, 2008).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the theoretical level, governance affects health outcomes through both direct and indirect channels. Indirectly, governance stimulates economic growth or the national income (Akokpari, 2008; Anyanwu, 2014), which subsequently determines the disposable income of households (Hu & Mendoza, 2013; Klomp & De Haan, 2008). Therefore, household income may also influence access to improved water and sanitation, nutrition, housing, female education, and other household level factors that may have an impact on access to quality healthcare in general and child mortality rates in particular (Rajkumar & Swaroop, 2008).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Along this line, African leaders have designed several landmark strategies to chart alternative development future: The Lagos Plan of Action for Economic Development of Africa, 1980Africa, -2000Africa, , 1980 the Final Act of Lagos, 1980; Africa's Priority Program of Action for Africa's Economic Recovery and Development (PAAERD), 1986; the African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Program (AAF-SAP) for Socio-Economic Recovery and Transformation, 1989; the African (Arusha) Charter for Popular Participation for Development, 1990; the UN New Agenda for the Development of Africa (UN-NADAF) in the 1990s, 1991; the Abuja Treaty, 1991; the Cairo Agenda, 1994; and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), 2001 (see Akokpari, 2008).…”
Section: Entrepreneurial Paradigm and African Economic Renaissancementioning
confidence: 99%