New York, United States
Join us as distinguished experts discuss the challenges of African development as countries work to combat poverty, improve the protection of human rights, increase government accountability and transparency, improve electoral systems, and manage foreign aid.
Our decision to devote an issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly and a conference to accountability for Africa's development in the 21st century is motivated by the fact that the region's growth has not made a notable dent on poverty on the continent. Performance in recent years on a range of measures of socioeconomic development and political stability is far from what one might hope it would be. For example, Africa will be the only region where the Millennium Development targets will not be met. Many parts of sub-Saharan Africa suffer from political instability. Economies remain fragile, only a heartbeat away from crisis instigated by natural or global shocks.
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