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The Accra seminar organised by the Sahel and West Africa Club and co-chaired by Presidents Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali and John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana, focused on regional development in West Africa. It addressed strategic questio...
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The Accra seminar organised by the Sahel and West Africa Club and co-chaired by Presidents Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali and John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana, focused on regional development in West Africa. It addressed strategic questions revolving around the links between globalisation, regionalisation and the State, the notion of "cross-border areas", the role of actors in market access and the NEPAD. Three major areas of reflection and guidelines for action arose from this highly informative seminar. Reconstructing the State, politics and public action The seminar underlined several observations and contradictions regarding the roles of the State, politics, and public action. On the one hand, African States are considered to be historically imported, imposed (Antoine Raogo Sawadogo), out of touch with civil society, offering few incentives to the private sector and limited to actions within their borders, which become dividing lines rather than gateways. They do not fully ensure basic State functions. They are overwhelmed from below by local cross-border dynamics and the pluralisation of society (Achille Mbembe) as well as from above by globalisation-related constraints and, due to extensive debt, by the "supervision" of donors and international organisations. On the other hand, the need remains to ensure basic State functions, in particular, maintaining security, implementing long term strategies and policy guidelines as well as keeping an eye to the ground in order to foresee and prevent risks of conflict. A development strategy implies rebuilding legitimate States capable of meeting the various challenges facing Africa and fostering the transition from "rent economies" to mass production economies. This issue underlines the need for public or collective action to play a role in the production of public goods (local, national, regional, global), to determine and implement pre or pro-active strategies favouring sustainable development. The nation-state as such remains essential, but needs to be subordinately linked to public action at local levels (decentralisation) and at regional levels (transfer of sovereignty). In order to redesign public action, the existence of legitimate decision-making processes is fundamental to enabling various factions to express themselves and their power relations.
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The Accra seminar organised by the Sahel and West Africa Club and co-chaired by Presidents Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali and John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana, focused on regional development in West Africa. It addressed strategic questio...
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The Accra seminar organised by the Sahel and West Africa Club and co-chaired by Presidents Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali and John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana, focused on regional development in West Africa. It addressed strategic questions revolving around the links between globalisation, regionalisation and the State, the notion of "cross-border areas", the role of actors in market access and the NEPAD. Three major areas of reflection and guidelines for action arose from this highly informative seminar. Reconstructing the State, politics and public action The seminar underlined several observations and contradictions regarding the roles of the State, politics, and public action. On the one hand, African States are considered to be historically imported, imposed (Antoine Raogo Sawadogo), out of touch with civil society, offering few incentives to the private sector and limited to actions within their borders, which become dividing lines rather than gateways. They do not fully ensure basic State functions. They are overwhelmed from below by local cross-border dynamics and the pluralisation of society (Achille Mbembe) as well as from above by globalisation-related constraints and, due to extensive debt, by the "supervision" of donors and international organisations. On the other hand, the need remains to ensure basic State functions, in particular, maintaining security, implementing long term strategies and policy guidelines as well as keeping an eye to the ground in order to foresee and prevent risks of conflict. A development strategy implies rebuilding legitimate States capable of meeting the various challenges facing Africa and fostering the transition from "rent economies" to mass production economies. This issue underlines the need for public or collective action to play a role in the production of public goods (local, national, regional, global), to determine and implement pre or pro-active strategies favouring sustainable development. The nation-state as such remains essential, but needs to be subordinately linked to public action at local levels (decentralisation) and at regional levels (transfer of sovereignty). In order to redesign public action, the existence of legitimate decision-making processes is fundamental to enabling various factions to express themselves and their power relations.
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