The World Bank’s Agenda for Accelerated Development: Dialectics, Doubts and Dialogues

Abstract

The 1981 appearance of the World Bank’s review of and prescription for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) — Accelerated Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda For Action ( AD ) — has certainly attracted more attention, discussion and diatribes than any other economic study on Africa. It is perceived by analysts and decision-takers concerned with Africa — African and external, friend and foe — as of critical importance even if their assessments of it range from a new source of revealed wisdom through a secular variant on the Book of Revelation to a recipe for accelerated starvation. Is this amount of attention justified and, if so, why? These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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