Keys to Guinea's Development

Mamadi Camara

Description

Although Guinea has important assets in natural resources, hydroelectric energy, agricultural, land and fishing resources, it has not succeed to the present day to use them to transform itself and establish the economic and social development so awaited by its people. The author gives to the government the keys to inclusive and sustainable development based on the endogenous capacities of the country. (La version française de l'ouvrage : Clés pour le développement de la Guinée, est disponible).

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Afrique subsaharienne
• Conakry
• Développement

Informations

• Publié par: L'Harmattan
• Date de parution: 15 janvier 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• EAN13: 9782336401713
• Langue: Français
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Keys to Guinea’s Development

Mamadi C AMARA

The Keys to Guinea’s Development

Preface by Seydi Ababacar Dieng

Titre original : Les clés pour le développement de la Guinée, Éditions L’Harmattan, 2015 Translation from French to English Done by Hélène du Preez

© L’Harmattan, 2016 5-7, rue de l’Ecole-Polytechnique, 75005 Paris http://www.harmattan.fr [e-mail] ISBN : 978-2-343-08236-3 EAN : 9782343082363

To my former students from the courses: (i)Banking Techniques at the Institut Polytech- nique Gamal Abdel Nasser in Conakry and (ii)Macro-economics at the Cellule d’Etude de Politique économique (CEPEC) of the Centre national de Perfectionnement à la Gestion (CNPG) in Donka, Conakry.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This book was submitted to several people for obser- vations, suggestions and advice. They all gracefully ac- cepted to read it. I would like to express my deepest gratitude for their encouraging advice on all or part of the manuscript. Ibrahima Soumah and Mamadou Doumbouya, for- mer Minister of Mines and Geology and former Secre- tary General of the same Ministry, and El Hadj Mamadi Touré from the Head Office of the Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) rank amongst the greatest experts of the Guinean mining sector. They read the chapter on mining with great care, and this reassured me enormously. I am grateful to Ousmane Tanou Diallo, Energy Con- sultant at the African Development Bank, who put at my disposal a wealth of information on energy in Guinea which was largely authored by him. I also wish to thank Ousmane Conté, from the Re- search and Statistics Office of the Institut Monétaire de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (IMAO), in Accra, who edited the chapter on the Ghana Example. I appreciate the availability of Mody Oury Barry, an electrical Engineer, who took the time to contribute to the chapter on hydroelectricity. I also thank Saloun Cis- sé, an acknowledged expert on the Guinean natural en- vironment who edited the chapter on agriculture, as well

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as Sékouna Diakité, former official of the African De- velopment Bank, who made meaningful general com- ments. I wish to express my gratitude to Moussa Sidibé, a talented demographer of Guinea, who made relevant comments on the last chapter of the manuscript. I also thank Abdoulaye Touré, former national Director of the Plan. This expert in economical modelling and macroe- conomic framing willingly edited the manuscript. This book owes much to the quality of the editing, suggestions and comments by Mourad Labidi, former UN expert and Economy Consultant at the African De- velopment Bank. Finally, I wish to thank Seydi Ababacar Dieng, Uni- versity Professor in Economics, Director of the econom- ic and monetary research laboratory (Larem) of the Cheick-Anta-Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) and visiting professor at various universities, such as Sofo- nia University in Conakry. This author of several trib- unes in the weekly Jeune Afrique, graciously accepted to write the Preface of this book.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE .................................................................... 13 INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 15 CHAPTER ONE THE CONCEPT OF DEVELOPMENT ...................... 23 CHAPTER TWO WHY ARE SOME COUNTRIES RICH AND OTHERS POOR? ........................................................ 35 CHAPTER THREE WHY DOES GUINEA REMAIN A POOR COUNTRY? ................................................. 41 CHAPTER FOUR THE SYNDROME OF POVERTY IN GUINEA ....... 47 CHAPTER FIVE THE TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY OF GUINEA ................................................................ 57 CHAPTER SIX FIRST PILLAR: IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION............................ 63

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