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UN top official
to present at int'l meeting in Addis Ababa
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 ADDIS
ABEBA(July 8,2008)
- Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Director
Thandika Mkandawire is to present a paper on institutional Monocropping
and Monotasking in Africa onn Wednesday this week in Addis Ababa,
the UN agency's Ethiopia office said on Monday.
The Director's presentation forms part of Columbia University's initiative
for policy Dialogue Africa Task Force Meeting, it said.
UNRSID said that during the meeting, scheduled to take place at the
Ethiopian Development Research Institute-Dr. Mkandawir will discuss
the current focus on institutions as a key to development in Africa.
“In his paper, Dr. Mkandawire argues that, while the upsurge
of interest in institution is welcome, the single minded subjugation
of institutional reform to one set of policies has denied local institutions
the capacity for learning from the wide range of experience from other
parts of the world,” UNRISD said in a press statement Monday.
"Institutions established in this mould are unlikely to be able
to produce the locally engaged, flexible strategies to address the
task of edifying stable, developmental, democratic and socially inclusive
social orders that have thus far remained illusive in Africa,"
UNRSID said.
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