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Ghana’s Structural Adjustment Experience, Country Study by Clark Leith
The book undertakes an analysis of how a structural adjustment program should be evaluated. Although Ghana’s early post independence economic policies of import substitution and an overvalued exchange rate caused an economic catastrophe, it examined how the Economic Recovery Program adopted in 1983 halted deterioration and allowed moderate growth to resume. It noted, however, that there is no rewriting history: the damage done to Ghana’s economy by the initial policies has left a legacy of stunted economic health. The question confronted is how to distinguish the successes of structural adjustment from the ill effects of the past.
 
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Countries: Ghana
Project Director: Clark Leith
Year completed: 1997
 
 
Savings Mobilisation for Capital Formation and Growth in Africa: The Case of Nigeria
This project examined various policy approaches for enhancing mobilization of domestic savings within the current climate of economic reforms in Africa. It included a focus on capital markets, analyzed the performance of existing capital markets and identified the elements of an enabling environment for the development of this market in Africa.
 
Undertaken by: Department of Economics, University of Calabar
Countries: Nigeria
Project Director: Dr Michael Nyong
Year completed: 1997
 
 
Training Program in Economic Analysis and Policy Research
Training Program in Economic Analysis and Policy Research
 
Undertaken by: Conference de Institutions d’Enseignement et deRecherche Economiques et de Gestion en Afrique (CIEREA)
Countries: Burkina Faso
Project Director: Professor Aim Tchabour Gogue
Year completed: 1997
 
 
National Policy Forum on Policy Research to Foster Micro and Small Enterprises in Kenya (March 11 1997)
The primary objective of the Workshop was to review the status of existing policies affecting MSEs for which it is the responsibility of Central Government and the Local Authorities to implement, identify policy gaps, shortcomings and weaknesses in those policies and their implementation lacunae. It was expected that participants would discuss a specific set of policy recommendations and a policy research agenda to foster development of microenterprises in Kenya.
 
Undertaken by: African Development Research Foundation (ADRF); Regional Centre for Socio-Economic Studies and Development
Countries: Kenya
Project Director: Dr Andrew Mullei
Year completed: 1997
 
 
Brainstorming Workshop to Develop African Based Policy Research Agenda for Accelerated Development - ARAADA (March 24-26 1997)
The main objective of the workshop was to identify comparative studies, sub-regional issues and sub-Saharan development constraints that merit cooperative and joint multi-institute research, a focus which required sound policy research and strong linkages with governments. The workshop sought to identify a research agenda for accelerating African economic development by ensuring that indigenous policy research institutes in sub-Saharan Africa debate current and prospective economic and social problems facing sub-Saharan Africa focusing on problems common to many of the countries in the region and how these problems could be better addressed through the sharing of research results and the construction of comparative research projects. The immediate specific objective was to marshal the intellectual resources of Sub-Saharan Africa and to focus them upon the task of developing an African research agenda for accelerating development in Sub-Saharan Africa (ARAADA).
 
Undertaken by: ACEG- and ACBF-affiliated policy research institutes in SSA
Countries: Zimbabwe
Project Director: Dr Andrew Mullei
Year completed: 1997
 
 
Training Seminar on Strategic Planning and Communication for Policy Research Institutes in Kenya (June 23-24 1997)
The objective of the training seminar was to enhance the capacity of selected Kenyan policy research institutes to have an impact on policy by increasing their skills in strategic planning and communication. The goal of the seminar was to provide participants with a set of tools for strategic planning and management of policy research institutes through more effective marketing of policy research outputs.
 
Undertaken by: Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR)
Countries: Kenya
Project Director: Prof. Joseph Kimura
Year completed: 1997
 
 
Barriers to Small Firm Growth
The objective of this project was to identify economic barriers to expansion of small firms and recommend specific policies to alleviate them. The goal was to provide more employment and incomes through the growth of small firms.
 
Undertaken by: Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi
Countries: Kenya
Project Director: Dr Dorothy McCormick
Year completed: 1996
 
 
Conference on Southern Africa and Eastern Asia: Experiences and Opportunities in Development (1995)
The primary objective of the conference was to facilitate development of an augmented national capacity and analysis of development policies and management problems. Specifically, the conference was intended to address the relevance of recent East Asian development experience to the contemporary circumstances of countries in Southern Africa. The sessions were organized around key questions on the lessons for Southern Africa from the Asian experience. In terms of follow-up actions, there was a call for broadened facilities for “networking” between East Asian and Southern African countries.
 
Undertaken by: Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA)
Countries: Botswana
Project Director: Dr Andrew Mullei and Dr Jan Isaksen
Year completed: 1995
 
 

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