Road Map for Africa's Recovery: Challenges and Recommendations for Structural Reform

Abstract

A road map for the reversal of Africa's
marginalisation and under-development, to
put the continent on a sustainable growth
and development path, should be guided by
both framework conditions and factors that
promote economic growth and structural
change. This article investigates structural
reform in developing countries, including
strategic frameworks like NEPAD and the
APRM. The author accordingly suggests the
inclusion of various policy initiatives, including
political stability; the dynamic transformation
of production structures; development of and
improvement in the quality of institutions;
improvement in the quality of human resources;
and broader macro-economic stability, and
improvement in infrastructure. Nevertheless,
even an ideal framework would face the
long and diffi cult task of overcoming the
marginalisation and backwardness in Africa.

African Insight Vol. 36 (3&4) 2006: pp. 11-25