Towards a Better Regional Approach to Development in West Africa
Subtitle: Conclusions of the Special Event of Sahel and West Africa Club, May 2002
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Sahel and West Africa Club
Contributors: Sahel and West Africa Club
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9789264176270
Subjects: Development
Description: This book presents the conclusions of a meeting of the Sahel and West Africa Club in Accra, Ghana, in May 2002 on the following topic : "Towards a Better Regional Approach to Development in West Africa".  Regional cooperation is still only approached from an institutional perspective whilst field dynamics, economic actions and their transactions and demographic changes are forces that define spaces that regional policies seldom take into account.  Important questions emerged from the Accra debates:  How to harmonise "real" spaces with institutional integration spaces? Do certain groups of actors have a constructive vision and can they contribute to the formulation of a credible regional project?  Do these "real" spaces, especially those defined by "informal" exchanges, along with those targeted by multinational companies have positive or negative effects on the regional economy? Could they prefigure future official areas for integration?  The book is for development economists, African researchers,  NGOs and regional integration organisations.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Opening Speeches; title: -Speech by Jacqueline Damon, Director of the Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat; title: Speech by Joan Boer, President of the Sahel and West Africa Club; title: Speech by Mr. Alpha Oumar Konare, President of the Republic of Mali; title: Speech by John Agyekum Kufuor, President of the Republic of Ghana; title: Part One: Globalisation, Regionalisation, and the Crisis of Nation States; title: -General Overview of Issue by Achille Mbembe; title: Changing African States by Antoine Raogo Sawadogo; title: Regional Dynamics in West Africa by John Igue; title: Remarks on the First Three Presentations by Daniel C. Bach; title: Part Two: Cross-Border Areas; title: -The Cross-Border Area Concept in the West African Sub-Regional Process: Results of the Sikasso Seminar by Aguibou S. Diarrah; title: Managing Borderlands in West Africa: The Lived Experience of Nigeria and Its Immediate Neighbors by Anthony I. Asiwaju; title: Is Regional Integration Already Occurring in Corss-Border Areas? Sikasso, Korhogo, Bobo Dioulasso: The SKBo Tirangle by Karim Dahou; title: Remarks on Cross-Border Areas by Jean-Pierre Mbassi; title: Part Three: Market Access and Trade Development: Key Actors; title: -Market Access and Trade Development: Key Actors by Pape Demba Thiam; title: Private Enterprise and Regional Integration in West Africa by Francois Bost; title: African Merchant's Strategies by Boureima Wankoye; title: Remarks on Market Access and Trade Development by Kofi K. Apraku; title: Part Four: West Africa's Future; title: -Opening Remarks, Discussion on the NEPAD by Michel Leblanc; title: Long-Term Proposals for the NEPAD by Vincent Geronimi; title: Regional Stakes and Prospects for West Africa by Philippe Hugon