Fantu Cheru
Biographic Data
| ID | 134024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fantu Cheru |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fantu |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheru |
| SIGNATURE | CHERU F |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Negotiated Securitization? Examining Ethiopia's Post-2016 Refugee Policy Shift
The year 2016 is remembered globally for the adoption of the New York Declaration and its Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) as the new global refugee response model. In this regard, Ethiopia has been one of those African countries that have adopted the Declaration, made specific CRRF pledges and has become a CRRF pilot country. Such national policy move heralded the shift of refugee policy in Ethiopia in the post-2016 era. Nonethele…
On Resuscitating the Aborted National Project: A Retrospective and Prospective View (Notes from my Last Conversation with Thandika Mkandawire)
Text of the Inaugural Thandika Mkandawire Annual Memorial Lecture presented at the 3rd edition of the Social Policy in Africa Conference convened virtually from 22–24 November 2021. Fantu Cheru, Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy, American University, Washington, DC. Email: [email protected]
The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy
This volume is the first ever economics handbook on a single African country focused on the theme of structural transformation. It is intended to serve as a major reference book on the Ethiopian economy for university students, researchers, and policymakers. Part I, covering the period 1890–2017, deals with the transition from a traditional to a modern economy, from the period of Imperial rule under Emperor Haile Selassie, through the Derg regime…
Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy
From a war-torn and famine-plagued country at the beginning of the 1990s, Ethiopia is today emerging as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. Growth in Ethiopia has surpassed that of every other sub-Saharan country over the past decade and is forecast by the International Monetary Fund to exceed 8 percent over the next two years. The government has set its eyes on transforming the country into a middle-income country by 2025, and into a…
The Private Sector in Ethiopia’s Transformation
This chapter examines private-sector development in Ethiopia, focusing on the situation since the incumbent government took power in 1991 and private-sector development became an integral part of Ethiopia’s economic development strategy. Several private entrepreneurs and enterprises have emerged since the reform and are now playing a critical role in the economic development of the country. However, the private sector has not yet made strong inro…
Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily influenced by the livelihoods, trade, environment, and border management regimes working in their areas. These systems create opportunities for, and blockages to, movement within borderlands and acros…
Ethiopia’s ‘Economic Diplomacy’ and Regional Integration
Sixteen years ago the government of Ethiopia adopted the 2002 Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy, which emphasized ‘economic diplomacy’ as the cornerstone of its foreign policy. A central component of the strategy has been regional integration with Ethiopia’s neighbours in the Horn and Eastern Africa. Since then the political contexts have changed dramatically. Ethiopia is now seen as an attractive destination for labour-intensive manuf…
Developing countries and the right to development: A retrospective and prospective African view
The end of World War II, and the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, unleashed great expectations of a brave new world, in which the promotion and protection of human rights would become the central organising principle of international relations. This article examines the long struggle that African countries, joined by other developing countries, have waged at the UN for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) and for the right to dev…
Emerging Southern powers and new forms of South–South cooperation: Ethiopia’s strategic engagement with China and India
This article critically examines Ethiopia’s engagement with China and India. Despite being a non-oil exporting country, Ethiopia has become one of the fastest growing economies in Africa and, over the past decade, millions of people have been lifted out of poverty. Part of Ethiopia’s success has been the ability of the developmental state to harness its relationship with the new as well as the traditional development partners strategically, to un…
The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With contributions from scholars from the fields of economics, law,…
African scholars and western Africanists: A world apart
Speach given at the opening session of the 4th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS4) 'African Engagements: On Whose terms?'. Uppsala, Sweden, 15 June 2011
Democracy and People Power in Africa: Still searching for the ‘political kingdom’
1 1 A term borrowed from Kwame Nkrumah's famous speech, ‘seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added unto you’. This article analyses current trends in the struggle for democracy in Africa, including the role of social movements. Such movements found early expression in the anti-colonial movement, while recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are reminiscent of the second liberation struggles of two decades earlier. The article…
Countering ‘new imperialisms’: What role for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development?
Introduction – Africa in the twenty-first century: Strategic and development challenges
The rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions
This book examines in detail the opportunities and challenges posed by the increasing presence of China and India in Africa, and proposes critical interventions that African governments must undertake in order to negotiate with China and India from a stronger and more informed platform
The rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, opportunities and critical interventions
In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive demands from both countries, little research exists…
Development in Africa: What is the Cutting Edge in Thinking and Policy
In September 1958, the US African Studies Association (ASA) held its first annual meeting in Evanston, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Fifty years later, when the ASA reconvened in Chicago to celeb
Building and supporting prsp s in africa: What has worked well so far? what needs changing
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (prsp) initiative came out of the 1999 Cologne annual meeting of the G-7 governments, when the leaders of the industrialised countries announced the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (hipc II). 1 1 Report of the G-7 Finance Ministers on the Cologne Debt Initiative to the Cologne Economic Summit, Cologne, 18–20 June 1999, at http://www.g8cologne.de/06/00114/index.html. The joint Boards of the …
The African Renaissance: History, Significance and Strategy
Washington A. J. Okumu, The African Renaissance: history, significance and strategy. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002, 295 pp., US$24.95, ISBN 1 59221 013 9 (paperback). - Fantu Cheru, African Renaissance: roadmaps to the challenge of globalization. London and New York: Zed Books, 2002, 253 pp., £14.95, ISBN 1 84277 087 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 3
African Renaissance: Roadmaps to the Challenge of Globalization
Debt, adjustment and the politics of effective response to HIV/Aids in Africa
Today in much of Africa economic growth has slowed and living standards for the majority have suffered in the face of rising unemployment and mass poverty, resulting in incomes that are presently below the 1970 level. One problem that has been the focus of much attention and contention over the past 20 years is the huge foreign debt owed by African countries to bilateral donors and multilateral institutions. Debt servicing is consuming a dispropo…
Overcoming apartheid's legacy: The ascendancy of neoliberalism in South Africa's anti-poverty strategy
Poverty in South Africa is intertwined with a host of social and economic issues. The burden of poverty is exacerbated by limited access to basic services, poor housing, limited employment opportunities and inadequate infrastructure, which are an outcome of the terrible legacies of apartheid. During its first year in office, the ANC-dominated government officially endorsed a policy of 'growth from redistribution', whereby a strong state and a str…
The Politics of Poverty and Debt in Africa's Aids Crisis
Transforming our common future: The local dimensions of global reform
Globalization, a phenomenon brought about by technological revolutions, is an increasingly important dimension of international economic relations in terms of its implications for trade, productive investment and finance. In both mainstream media and the corporate board rooms, globalization is presented as the only alternative that would bring unprecedented world prosperity and freedom in the post-Cold War era (Bamet and Cavanagh, 1994). Others, …
Debt relief & social investment: Linking the Hipc initiative to the HIV/Aids epidemic in Africa: the case of Zambia
Besides being a global public health emergency, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has become the foremost contemporary threat to the development of many African countries. Past achievements in economic growth, improved life expectancy and decreasing child mortality have been reversed by the rapid spread of the HIV virus. It is estimated that each day in Africa more than 5,000 people die from AIDS or HIV related illness, with the figure expected to climb to a…
The rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, opportunities and critical interventions
In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive demands from both countries, little research exists…
Emerging Southern powers and new forms of South–South cooperation: Ethiopia’s strategic engagement with China and India
This article critically examines Ethiopia’s engagement with China and India. Despite being a non-oil exporting country, Ethiopia has become one of the fastest growing economies in Africa and, over the past decade, millions of people have been lifted out of poverty. Part of Ethiopia’s success has been the ability of the developmental state to harness its relationship with the new as well as the traditional development partners strategically, to un…
Structural adjustment, primary resource trade and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa
Overcoming apartheid's legacy: The ascendancy of neoliberalism in South Africa's anti-poverty strategy
Poverty in South Africa is intertwined with a host of social and economic issues. The burden of poverty is exacerbated by limited access to basic services, poor housing, limited employment opportunities and inadequate infrastructure, which are an outcome of the terrible legacies of apartheid. During its first year in office, the ANC-dominated government officially endorsed a policy of 'growth from redistribution', whereby a strong state and a str…
The Silent Revolution in Africa: Debt, Development and Democracy
The Silent Revolution in Africa: debt, development and democracy was published in 1989, the year that shall be remembered for the momentous political revolutions of Eastern Europe characterised by a popular triumph of democratic rule and market-driven economics. Even before all this, the Soviet Union had applied for observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, in anticipation of an increased role for itself in the west…
Democracy and People Power in Africa: Still searching for the ‘political kingdom’
1 1 A term borrowed from Kwame Nkrumah's famous speech, ‘seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added unto you’. This article analyses current trends in the struggle for democracy in Africa, including the role of social movements. Such movements found early expression in the anti-colonial movement, while recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are reminiscent of the second liberation struggles of two decades earlier. The article…
Building and supporting prsp s in africa: What has worked well so far? what needs changing
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (prsp) initiative came out of the 1999 Cologne annual meeting of the G-7 governments, when the leaders of the industrialised countries announced the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (hipc II). 1 1 Report of the G-7 Finance Ministers on the Cologne Debt Initiative to the Cologne Economic Summit, Cologne, 18–20 June 1999, at http://www.g8cologne.de/06/00114/index.html. The joint Boards of the …
Debt, adjustment and the politics of effective response to HIV/Aids in Africa
Today in much of Africa economic growth has slowed and living standards for the majority have suffered in the face of rising unemployment and mass poverty, resulting in incomes that are presently below the 1970 level. One problem that has been the focus of much attention and contention over the past 20 years is the huge foreign debt owed by African countries to bilateral donors and multilateral institutions. Debt servicing is consuming a dispropo…
The African Renaissance: History, Significance and Strategy
Washington A. J. Okumu, The African Renaissance: history, significance and strategy. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002, 295 pp., US$24.95, ISBN 1 59221 013 9 (paperback). - Fantu Cheru, African Renaissance: roadmaps to the challenge of globalization. London and New York: Zed Books, 2002, 253 pp., £14.95, ISBN 1 84277 087 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 3
Debt relief & social investment: Linking the Hipc initiative to the HIV/Aids epidemic in Africa: the case of Zambia
Besides being a global public health emergency, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has become the foremost contemporary threat to the development of many African countries. Past achievements in economic growth, improved life expectancy and decreasing child mortality have been reversed by the rapid spread of the HIV virus. It is estimated that each day in Africa more than 5,000 people die from AIDS or HIV related illness, with the figure expected to climb to a…
Developing countries and the right to development: A retrospective and prospective African view
The end of World War II, and the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, unleashed great expectations of a brave new world, in which the promotion and protection of human rights would become the central organising principle of international relations. This article examines the long struggle that African countries, joined by other developing countries, have waged at the UN for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) and for the right to dev…
On Resuscitating the Aborted National Project: A Retrospective and Prospective View (Notes from my Last Conversation with Thandika Mkandawire)
Text of the Inaugural Thandika Mkandawire Annual Memorial Lecture presented at the 3rd edition of the Social Policy in Africa Conference convened virtually from 22–24 November 2021. Fantu Cheru, Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy, American University, Washington, DC. Email: [email protected]
Development in Africa: What is the Cutting Edge in Thinking and Policy
In September 1958, the US African Studies Association (ASA) held its first annual meeting in Evanston, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Fifty years later, when the ASA reconvened in Chicago to celeb
The Politics of Poverty and Debt in Africa's Aids Crisis
Transforming our common future: The local dimensions of global reform
Globalization, a phenomenon brought about by technological revolutions, is an increasingly important dimension of international economic relations in terms of its implications for trade, productive investment and finance. In both mainstream media and the corporate board rooms, globalization is presented as the only alternative that would bring unprecedented world prosperity and freedom in the post-Cold War era (Bamet and Cavanagh, 1994). Others, …
Negotiated Securitization? Examining Ethiopia's Post-2016 Refugee Policy Shift
The year 2016 is remembered globally for the adoption of the New York Declaration and its Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) as the new global refugee response model. In this regard, Ethiopia has been one of those African countries that have adopted the Declaration, made specific CRRF pledges and has become a CRRF pilot country. Such national policy move heralded the shift of refugee policy in Ethiopia in the post-2016 era. Nonethele…
Livelihoods and Mobility in the Border Regions of Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s borderlands are key sites of population mobility and migration. Not only do these areas host most of the 800,000 refugees who have entered Ethiopia from neighbouring countries, they also are home to populations whose movements are heavily influenced by the livelihoods, trade, environment, and border management regimes working in their areas. These systems create opportunities for, and blockages to, movement within borderlands and acros…
African scholars and western Africanists: A world apart
Speach given at the opening session of the 4th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS4) 'African Engagements: On Whose terms?'. Uppsala, Sweden, 15 June 2011
The prospects for expanded trade and investment between Kenya and South Africa
This paper surveys principally the trade relationship between South Africa and Kenya over the last few years, highlighting the tremendous imbalance in South Africa's favour. It also charts the rise and fall in the Kenyan economy with particular reference to the IMF/World Bank reform packages and the on/off implementation, an experience common to many Third World (and African governments in particular) countries
Dependence, Underdevelopment and Unemployment in Kenya: School Leavers in a Peripheral Capitalist Political Economy
"Please Don't Develop Us Any More"
The Silent Revolution in Africa: Debt, Development and Democracy
The Silent Revolution in Africa: debt, development and democracy was published in 1989, the year that shall be remembered for the momentous political revolutions of Eastern Europe characterised by a popular triumph of democratic rule and market-driven economics. Even before all this, the Soviet Union had applied for observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, in anticipation of an increased role for itself in the west…
The Silent Revolution in Africa: Debt, Development, and Democracy
Structural adjustment, primary resource trade and sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa
The prospects for expanded trade and investment between Kenya and South Africa
This paper surveys principally the trade relationship between South Africa and Kenya over the last few years, highlighting the tremendous imbalance in South Africa's favour. It also charts the rise and fall in the Kenyan economy with particular reference to the IMF/World Bank reform packages and the on/off implementation, an experience common to many Third World (and African governments in particular) countries
The silent revolution and the weapons of the weak: Transformation and innovation from below
In the arcane and isolated world of academia, the ‘everyday forms of resistance’ of ordinary poor people across the globe rarely attract the attention of researchers or funding agencies until these local level struggles break out into spasms of violence that could threaten the status quo . The conventional view is that everyday resistance represents trivial coping mechanisms that are non-political and these merit no serious investigation. This vi…
Innovation and Transformation in International Studies
This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical innovation in international studies. Highlighting classic and new research problems, this collection of critically minded, original essays pushes international relations scholarship in uncharted directions. Bridging social theory and international relations theory, it searches for sources of intellectual innovation in the everyday lives of ordinary people. The seventeen contributor…
Transforming our common future: The local dimensions of global reform
Globalization, a phenomenon brought about by technological revolutions, is an increasingly important dimension of international economic relations in terms of its implications for trade, productive investment and finance. In both mainstream media and the corporate board rooms, globalization is presented as the only alternative that would bring unprecedented world prosperity and freedom in the post-Cold War era (Bamet and Cavanagh, 1994). Others, …
Debt relief & social investment: Linking the Hipc initiative to the HIV/Aids epidemic in Africa: the case of Zambia
Besides being a global public health emergency, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has become the foremost contemporary threat to the development of many African countries. Past achievements in economic growth, improved life expectancy and decreasing child mortality have been reversed by the rapid spread of the HIV virus. It is estimated that each day in Africa more than 5,000 people die from AIDS or HIV related illness, with the figure expected to climb to a…
External dependence and national urban development policy: A structural analysis of graduate unemployment in Nairobi, Kenya
This dissertation examines the attempts by the government of Kenya to develop and implement policies directed toward the problem of urban unemployment. Specifically, this study focuses upon two policy areas directly related to the problem of urban unemployment: education and economic growth. Central to the urban unemployment problem is a potential conflict arising out of a rapidly growing number of school graduates on the one hand, and on the oth…
Overcoming apartheid's legacy: The ascendancy of neoliberalism in South Africa's anti-poverty strategy
Poverty in South Africa is intertwined with a host of social and economic issues. The burden of poverty is exacerbated by limited access to basic services, poor housing, limited employment opportunities and inadequate infrastructure, which are an outcome of the terrible legacies of apartheid. During its first year in office, the ANC-dominated government officially endorsed a policy of 'growth from redistribution', whereby a strong state and a str…
The Politics of Poverty and Debt in Africa's Aids Crisis
Debt, adjustment and the politics of effective response to HIV/Aids in Africa
Today in much of Africa economic growth has slowed and living standards for the majority have suffered in the face of rising unemployment and mass poverty, resulting in incomes that are presently below the 1970 level. One problem that has been the focus of much attention and contention over the past 20 years is the huge foreign debt owed by African countries to bilateral donors and multilateral institutions. Debt servicing is consuming a dispropo…
The African Renaissance: History, Significance and Strategy
Washington A. J. Okumu, The African Renaissance: history, significance and strategy. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002, 295 pp., US$24.95, ISBN 1 59221 013 9 (paperback). - Fantu Cheru, African Renaissance: roadmaps to the challenge of globalization. London and New York: Zed Books, 2002, 253 pp., £14.95, ISBN 1 84277 087 (paperback). - Volume 73 Issue 3
African Renaissance: Roadmaps to the Challenge of Globalization
Building and supporting prsp s in africa: What has worked well so far? what needs changing
The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (prsp) initiative came out of the 1999 Cologne annual meeting of the G-7 governments, when the leaders of the industrialised countries announced the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (hipc II). 1 1 Report of the G-7 Finance Ministers on the Cologne Debt Initiative to the Cologne Economic Summit, Cologne, 18–20 June 1999, at http://www.g8cologne.de/06/00114/index.html. The joint Boards of the …
Development in Africa: What is the Cutting Edge in Thinking and Policy
In September 1958, the US African Studies Association (ASA) held its first annual meeting in Evanston, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Fifty years later, when the ASA reconvened in Chicago to celeb
Countering ‘new imperialisms’: What role for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development?
Introduction – Africa in the twenty-first century: Strategic and development challenges
The rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions
This book examines in detail the opportunities and challenges posed by the increasing presence of China and India in Africa, and proposes critical interventions that African governments must undertake in order to negotiate with China and India from a stronger and more informed platform
The rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, opportunities and critical interventions
In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming Africa's international relations in a dramatic way. Although the overall impact of China and India's engagement in Africa has been positive in the short-term, partly as a result of higher returns from commodity exports fuelled by excessive demands from both countries, little research exists…
African scholars and western Africanists: A world apart
Speach given at the opening session of the 4th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS4) 'African Engagements: On Whose terms?'. Uppsala, Sweden, 15 June 2011
Democracy and People Power in Africa: Still searching for the ‘political kingdom’
1 1 A term borrowed from Kwame Nkrumah's famous speech, ‘seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added unto you’. This article analyses current trends in the struggle for democracy in Africa, including the role of social movements. Such movements found early expression in the anti-colonial movement, while recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are reminiscent of the second liberation struggles of two decades earlier. The article…
The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have generated tremendous discussion in global policy and academic circles. On the one hand, they have been hailed as the most important initiative ever in international development. On the other hand, they have been described as a great betrayal of human rights and universal values that has contributed to a depoliticization of development. With contributions from scholars from the fields of economics, law,…
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