Africa's Development Challenges and the World Bank: Hard Questions, Costly Choices

Using as a point of departure the World Bank's views on the development problems facing Africa, the authors look at donor policy and describe some of the challenges facing outside agencies, and assess the experiences of particular African countries with World Bank programmes. This publication originated at a conference (Africa's Development Challenge and the World Bank Response) held at UCLA in November 1986, and co-sponsored and co-funded by the World Bank, UCLA's African Studies Center, and the Center's Development Institute.

Contents:
Africa's development challenge / Stephen K. Commins --
What can be done in Africa? : the World Bank's response / Edward Jaycox --
Policy reforms for economic development in Tanzania / Nguyuru Lipumba --
Impact of the World Bank-supported Agricultural Development Project on rural women in Zambia / Monica Munachonga --
Issues of political economy in formulating donor policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Christiansen, Cheryl Christensen, and Beatrice Edwards --
The political basis for agricultural policy reform / Robert Bates --
Food aid and policy-based lending to Africa / Raymond Hopkins --
Political economy and policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa / Carol Lancaster --
Bureaucratic growth and economic stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa / David Abernethy --
Structural adjustment in the longer run / Charles Elliott.