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Obstacles to progress

Realities

• Conditionality as implemented has weakened African Governance and created untold

social issues ( It has taken the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic to bring home to these
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services across Africa)
• (Market) Liberalisation has undermined the economy of individual African nations

and through its consequences, harmed their 'value added' manufacturing and in turn
exacerbated and prolonged their 'Debt Overhang'

• It is clear that both institutions have been learning as they go along. Despite this they have
shown themselves to be impervious to criticism, slow to accept the need to change
• Report after report shows the

• 'self-imposed' haste for the implementation of World Bank and IMF conditionalities

• The 'dogmatism' adopted by both Institutions as being 'unquestionable'
• Despite claiming to 'have changed' and to have adapted their country programmes to be

more tailored to each country there are statistical research projects that evidence this to be
untrue

• Report after report shows the failure of both Institutions to develop their relationship with
African governments

• Both Institutions remain glued to a position of 'control' over African governments
• A fundamental requirement for a country to achieve sustained Economic and Social

Development is the evolution of its own robust institutions.
• Africa and African nations have become much more sophisticated than was the case

in 1960 and some, if not many, are now more capable of establishing their own robust
institutions

• The 'one size fits all' approach of both Institutions clearly referenced in reports does
much harm to institutional development within Africa
• Their is a real need for both Institutions to move from the position of 'control' to a

position of
• Agreeing with each country what the problems are

• Asking them how they want to solve these
• Establishing a tailored framework of what this might mean and exactly what

the Institutions might be able to agree to

• Coming to a final agreement
(Both Institutions will say they already do this, but independent reports say they don't)