Regionalizing Neoliberalism: The New Partnership for African Development and the Political Economy of Restructuring in South Africa (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

Despite its problems, neoliberalism has undergone multiscalar institutional embedding in Africa. PRSPs are also linked to other policy frameworks. According to Ronald Kempe Hope (2001, cited in Simon, 2003, p. 71), ‘the PRSP process is … recognized in the NEPAD framework document as the principal vehicle for building continent-wide priorities into national poverty reduction programmers and co-coordinating international support.’ NEPAD was launched in 2001 and later adopted by the African Union as an official program. Western leaders were consulted on NEPAD by Thabo Mbeki prior to the African National Congress, but African civil societies were not consulted (Anon., 2004a). NEPAD has consequently been dismissed by some analysts as a ‘western wolf in African sheepskin,’ suggesting continued subservience to western power and values (Adebayo, 2003c, cited in Abrahamsen, 2004b). In particular its emphasis on regional integration and infrastructural development will facilitate continued extraction of Africa’s resources (Toulmin and Wisner, 2006).

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