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Making Development Work in Africa : Our Common Interest

Sir Nicholas Stern

Abstracts

The “lecture” on 18th November 2005 at Université de la Méditerranée for IDEP was based on the extended text which follows. The paper is written in a personal capacity and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Cabinet Office, Her Majesty’s Treasury or Her Majesty’s Government more generally. Most of the arguments, including the figures and the data, are drawn from “Our Common Interest: the Report of the Commission for Africa” published in March 2005 and available on www.commissionforafrica.org. That source can also be consulted for further references. “Africa” here generally refers to sub-saharan Africa unless the broader context of Africa as a whole is indicated. For convenience, figure numbers in this text also contain their figure numbers from the Report of the Commission. For much of the time we shall speak of aggregates across Africa but throughout the discussion it must be remembered that sub-Saharan Africa is 48 countries which vary greatly on many dimensions, including policies and priorities. I am very grateful to the members and staff of thr Commission for extensive collaboration and discussion concerning most of the issues raised, to Rosemary Stevenson for comments on this paper, and to Daniel Ingram and Andrew Jowett for help in presentation and editing. The Commission consulted widely and benefited from comments, discussions and ideas both inside and outside Africa. The results  have been presented and discussed in a number of for a. This text is a much-abbreviated version of a paper presented to the African Economics Research Consortium, to be published in the Journal for African Economics.

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Electronic reference

Sir Nicholas Stern, “Making Development Work in Africa : Our Common Interest”Économie publique/Public economics [Online], 17 | 2005/2, Online since 11 May 2007, connection on 18 May 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/economiepublique/2816; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/economiepublique.2816

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About the author

Sir Nicholas Stern

Head of the Government Economic Service of the UK. Adviser to HM Government on the Economics of Climate Change and Development. Formerly Director of Policy and Research for the Commission for Africa

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The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are “All rights reserved”, unless otherwise stated.

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