Maldevelopment: Anatomy of a global failure
- By Samir Amin (1990)
Contents:
Introduction:
why a political analysis?
Notes
1.
Africa's economic backwardness
Sources
and methods for the analysis
South of the
Sahara
The
origins of Africa's agricultural failure
Analysing
the exploitation of peasants
North Africa and the Arab world: from statism to comprador capitalism
False
analyses, false solutions
Conceptions of Africa's agricultural development: a critique
Industrialization
and the agricultural revolution
Notes
2.
The decade of drift: 1975-1985
The excitement of the Bandung plan (1955-73)
The battle for a new international economic order
(NIEO): 1974-1980
Structural costs; the stakes; the struggle for the NIEO
Africa: from the Lagos plan (1980) to the world bank plan and the
United Nations Conference (1986)
Debt
and the threat of a financial crash
The efforts of radical African nationalism: adjustment or delinking?
Notes
3. The crisis
of state
Nation-state and the ideology of nation in crisis'
Ethnicity:
myth and reality
The cultural dimension of development in Africa and the third world
The cultural dimension: the example of the crisis in the arab world today - the
end of the Nahda?
New
forms of the social movement
Notes
4. Complexities of international relations: Africa's vulnerability and
external intervention
African economies' vulnerability vis-ŕ-vis the challenge of
capitalism's new worldwide expansion
Some specific aspects of Africa's economic integration in the world system,
ACP-EEC association and Euro-American mercantile conflict
Special links with France: the Franc zone
Evolution in Euro-Arab relations: interwoven economics and politics
Conflict and national and regional security in Africa
The
Middle East conflict in a world perspective
Africa
and the Arab world in the world system
Notes
5. Alternative development for Africa and the third world
Inequality in income distribution the centre and periphery
The alternative: popular national development, social and political democracy,
delinking
Obstacles to popular national, autocentric and delinked development
Notes
6. Political and social conditions for alternative development in the
third world
Impossibility of the bourgeois national state in the peripheries of the world
system
Inequality in the worldwide expansion of capitalism; the state's
central role
The
worldwide spread of value
A return to
the third world?
The
consequences of unequal development
The issue of
democracy
The historical subject of the popular national option; the role of the
intelligentsia
Notes
7.
Inter-African and south-south co-operation
Pan-Africanism in the light of the colonial inheritance
The
problematic of the Arab nation
Afro-arab
co-operation
Prospects
for south-south co-operation
Notes
8. A polycentric world favourable to development: a possibility?
The
scope and stakes of the global crisis
Conservative
forces' offensive
The
difficulties of forecasting
The
real options for the peoples of the West
Options for socialist societies and east-west relations
The genuine long-term option, transnationalization or a polycentric
world and broad autocentric regions
Conclusion: a crisis of transnationalization, ideology and development
theory
Notes
Maldevelopment Anatomy of a Global Failure
was first published in 1990 by:
Zed Books Ltd., 57 Caledonian Road, London N1 9BU, UK, and 171 First Avenue, Atlantic
Highlands, New Jersey 07716, USA and:
United Nations University Press, The United Nations University, Toho Seimei Building, IS-I
Shibuya 2-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150, Japan in co-operation with The Third World Forum,
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Copyright © The United Nations University, 1990.
Translation by Michael Wolfers
Cover designed by Andrew Corbett.
Typeset by EMS Photosetters, Rochford, Essex.
Printed and bound in the United Kingdom by Biddles Ltd. Guildford and King's Lynn.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication data
Amin, Samir 1931
Maldevelopment: anatomy of a global failure. - (The United Nations University/Third World
Forum Studies in African Political Economy).
1. Economic development. Sociopolitical Aspects
1. Title II. Series
330 9
ISBN 0-86232-930-2
ISBN 0-86232-931-0 pbk
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Amin, Samir.
Maldevelopment: anatomy of a global failure/Samir Amin; translated from the French by
Michael Wolfers.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-86232-930-2. - ISBN 0-86232-931-0 (pbk.)
1. Developing countries - Economic policy.
2. Africa - Economic conditions - 1960 -
3. Economic history - 1971 - 1. Title.
HC59.7.A7777 1990
338.9'009172'4 dc20
89-70607
CIP
THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY/THIRD WORLD FORUM
STUDIES IN AFRICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
General Editor:
Samir Amin
The United Nations University's (UNU) Project on the Third World and World Development
aims to study contemporary global developments from the perspective of the South: ongoing
trends and structural changes in the world-system are analysed in terms of their
consequences for the different regions of the third world and their implications for
development strategies and policy options that the developing countries can pursue, singly
and collectively through South-South co-operation. Through an interdisciplinary and global
comparative framework, the Project integrates the UNU's previous research work on the
regional perspectives of Africa, Asia, and Latin America - research which has been
undertaken over the last decade and has involved, worldwide, hundreds of researchers
organized into regional networks. (The Studies in African Political Economy series grew
out of the work of the African regional network as part of an earlier UNU project,
Transnationalization or Nation-Building in Africa.) The comparative research into the
different regions' experiences of the 1980s provides a basis for comprehending their
expectations for the 1990s and for formulating development strategies that would be fully
cognizant of the changes that hew occurred at all levels of the global system. Those
changes have been analyzed in this Project through five main themes: the process of
transnationalization, the crisis of states, the emergence of social movements, the
cultural dimension of contemporary developments, and conflicts and the possibilities of
co-operation in the third world.
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