Towards a Better Regional Approach to Development in West by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development,

Towards a Better Regional Approach to Development in West by Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development,

By Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Ogunsola John Igue, Sunhilt Schumacher

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I wish you every success in your discussions. Thank you. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, President of the Republic of Ghana Your Excellency, Mr. Alpha Oumar Konaré, President of the Republic of Mali, Your Excellencies, Heads of Diplomatic Missions and International Organisations, Honourable Sirs, Members of the Sahel and West Africa Club, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish to welcome all of you to this meeting and extend a special welcome to my friend and brother His Excellency Alpha Konaré, the President of the Republic of Mali, my co-chair for this special event.

Wasn’t it simply to survive that some human societies organised politically into states? 3 End of the post-colonial era: Failing nation states and weakened states rebuilt by various actors Caught between global and local levels, the state is at once diluted in a larger space and fragmented into smaller spaces. Colonisation is no longer the culprit. We are coming to accept shared responsibility for the failure of development action. Analysing current development policies reveals some vital issues concerning the post-colonial African state’s future.

3 Independence (1960 – 1970) Characteristics of this period were: • Necessity to build strong nations; • New nations joined all the international organisations; • Development of bilateral relations. It produced: • Sharp opposition during the Cold War between pro-Western States and socialist States, Englishand French-speaking States, etc; • Traditional and colonial integration areas are disrupted. 55 • Markets are “balkanised” with too much State-controlled economy, while economic rents and commodity trading (cash crops, mining and international aid) are reinforced; • Unofficial cross-border trade grows rapidly due to national egotism; • A greater range of trading actors: State, trading companies, a few local middlemen and emerging multinationals; • Directions of flow did not change: - Former colonial home countries (Métropoles) owing to currency systems, - International market, - From Sahelian countries to coastal countries.

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