"Towards a Better Regional Approach to Development in West Africa": Conclusions of the Special Event of Sahel and West Africa Club, Accra (Ghana), 20-21 May 2002This 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. |
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Accra actors African Union Afrique Alpha Oumar Konaré approach authorities Benin Bobo Dioulasso border areas borderlands Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad challenges Club du Sahel coherent colonial Communauté competitive complementarities concept conflicts Côte d'Ivoire cotton create cross-border areas cross-border cooperation cultural currency decentralisation development strategies economic integration économique ECOWAS emerging export processing zones framework François Bost Ghana global globalisation governments Guinea Guinée IGOS implementing infrastructure initiative integration process investment involve issues John Agyekum Kufuor Konaré Korhogo l'Afrique de l'Ouest linked Mali marginalisation market access monetary multinationals National Boundary Commission neighbouring NEPAD networks Niger Nigeria OECD opportunities organisations partnership Philippe Hugon political population private sector problems production programmes promoting prospects regional development regional dynamics regional economic regional institutions regional integration regionalisation role Sahel and West Sahelian Secretariat Senegal Sikasso SKBO triangle social sovereignty spatial structures sub-regional integration territorial Togo WAEMU West Africa Club