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New Agenda, South Africa's foremost social and economic policy journal, critiques progressive ideas related to development challenges.
Issue 33 has a strong focus on Africa. The lead story is an analysis by the South African Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, of the new global balance of power, partly arising from the new economic muscle of some so-called “emerging countries”. In particular China, India and Brazil have attained a new international profile, while South Africa remains influential. All this is having a major effect on international relations.
An editorial by Prof Adebayo Adedeji, former head of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa on the impact of the global financial crisis on Africa is essential reading for its intellectual depth. Prof Adedeji is the author of the classic Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 which is still the base economic document for the African Union.
A top official in Tanzania discusses the role of international aid for Africa, Minister Anyang Nyong’o and General Secretary of Odinga’s party, discusses the nature of the earlier political conflict in Kenya and the lessons for Zimbabwe. An Irish M P and joint leader of the European association of parliamentarians, Awepa, provides a fascinating account of the evolution of Ireland’s politics and the parallels with developments in Africa, showing that Africa’s political experiences are not unique.
In the international section, a leading world economist analyses the reasons for the current global financial crisis and proposes remedies in the area of changing the role of the IMF and introducing a range of regulatory measures on the financial sector, and comments on the impact on developing countries.
The South African section contains articles on the vulnerability of the new Black middle strata, the skills gap, and problems facing small contractors.
This is a somewhat unusual mix of articles for New Agenda, but all are a fascinating read, in our increasingly complex world order.
The journal is available from all CNA bookshops, Clarke’s bookshop, Spar and Exclusive Books, online as well as by means of subscription and direct sales. It will be on sale from end of April 2009. Also, available now “FROM THE FREEDOM CHARTER TO POLOKWANE: THE EVOLUTION OF ANC ECONOMIC POLICIES” Price: R150 and “WEALTH DOESN’T TRICKLE DOWN, THE CASE FOR A DEVELOPMENTAL STATE IN SOUTH AFRICA” Price: R120 both by Prof Ben Turok MP.
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