Abstract
A critical look at the role played by South Africa in the initiative.
Notes
Henning Melber is research director at The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. He was formerly the director of the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit in Windhoek. This paper was originally presented to a seminar on Nepad organised in Stockholm/Sweden with South African Vice President Jacob Zuma and South African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad on 9 October 2003. For an earlier more detailed assessment of Nepad see Melber H, The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) — Old Wine in New Bottles?’, Forum for Development Studies, 29,1, 2002, pp.186–208.