Summary

Part 1: Changes in European develoment policy

• 1. The different environment since 1989
  
• 2. Experiences with the Lomé Agreements
  
• 3. Is there a future for Lomé?
  

Part II: Options for German proposals towards a reform of European development policy

• 1. Conceptional approaches to a reform of Lomé co-operation
  
• 2. German demands for a European development policy
  
• 3. Components of a Lomé reform
  
• 4. Prospects
  
• 5. Overview: Proposals for a Lomé reform
  

Bibliography

Tables and diagrams

• Table 1:
  Contributions to the European Development Fund and the proportion of delivery orders
  
• Table 2:
  A comparison of funds stemming from various in the Lomé Agreements
  
• Table 3:
  Regional distribution of EC/EU development aid
  
• Table 4:
  Development aid payments of the EU 1990–1993
  
• Table 5:
  STABEX transfers according to products
  
• Table 6:
  SYSMIN payments 1980–1990
  
• Table 7:
  Industrial promotion within the EDF
  
• Table 8:
  A Model to reduce funding through subsidy instruments
  
• Table 9:
  Urban population development in Africa 1950–2020
  
• Table 10:
  Population increase in urban agglomerations
  
• Table 11:
  Income distribution 1981–1992
  
• Table 12:
  Foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa 1991–1993
  
• Table 13:
  Africa’s imports from industrial nations 1955–1991
  
• Table 14:
  Africa’s exports according to regions 1980–1993
  
• Diagram 1:
  Flow of foreign direct investment to Africa(including North Africa)
  
• Diagram 2:
  Flow of private capital to ACP states
  
• Diagram 3:
  Africa’s export structure 1980–1991
  

[Appendix]

• Exposition 1: The application of STABEX
  
• Exposition 2: The application of SYSMIN
  
• Exposition 3: Objectives of structural adjustment laid down in the Lomé Convention
  
• Exposition 4: Discontinuation of the STABEX and SYSMIN subsidy systems
  
• Exposition 5: Monetary co-operation
  
• Exposition 6: Poverty alleviation
  
• Exposition 7: Investments
  
• Exposition 8: Human rights
  
• Exposition 9: The 1993 Mid-Term Review
  
• Exposition 10: Fine tuning and the review of individual instruments
  
• Exposition 11:
  Which criteria should Lomé apply: poverty or performance, i.e. progress in political reform?
  
• Exposition 12: Should Lomé be decentralised?
  

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