African Alternative to Structural Adjustment Programmes (AA-SAP): a framework for transformation and recovery

Abstract

The structure of the African economy defines the essential features of Africa’s central problem of underdevelopment. The major problems of mass poverty, food shortage, low productivity, weak productive base and backward technology that plague Africa are basic bottlenecks that arise from the structures of production, consumption, technology, employment and socio-political organization. It is therefore not possible to seek solutions to such deep-rooted problems without a structural analysis of the political economy of Africa. It is this structural focus on the African economy and Attention to measures that could change the underlying structures that have been the major missing elements in past and current policies for adjustment.