In the 1980s and 1990s, World Bank and International Monetary Fund officials wrote economic policy for African governments and bribed them with aid into signing up to it.
In her opening address, Ms Bokova praised African governments for the progress that has been achieved and stressed that it should not be undermined.
South Africa's Business Day has criticized African governments for downplaying the Sudanese government's responsibility at the new UN Human Rights Council created this year, saying the Africa group did no more than offer a weak draft resolution.
Though industry could never provide enough jobs to satisfy the demand for them, many African governments considered it the route to modernity and would thus neglect agriculture, holding down the price of food, and therefore the incomes of farmers, to pacify the politically conscious urban population.
Many African governments, for example, have taken note of the success of Mauritius's deregulated economy.
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Many African governments still crave Israeli expertise for projects such as irrigation, but they are also after military and intelligence technology.
During the cold war, African governments, acting as proxy for one side or the other, often backed rebel movements but they rarely crossed borders and never because of an internal issue.
When the U.S. and U.K. governments allocate funding for health care in Africa, the vast majority of it goes toward helping African governments build state-run facilities.
The challenge for Western firms and governments is how to help African citizens wheedle data out of their governments so as to hold them more to account.
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For years, cash-strapped African states had to turn almost exclusively to the IMF, World Bank and Western governments for financial help.
The barriers, plus the help from African governments, have made it much harder for immigrants.
This bridge-building role continued after he returned to South Africa, and he can take much of the credit for reassuring South African and international business interests, and foreign governments, that a post-apartheid South Africa would be a safe place for their money.
The WCS met with seven other groups, including the WWF and the African Parks Network, on Friday to propose ways for governments to tackle the problem.
Britain's aid ministry, the Department for International Development, believes that by handing its grants straight to African governments and letting them get on with the job, it will strengthen the governments' sense of responsibility for helping their countries' needy and encourage their people to understand that the long-term answer to their problems is better government, rather than the generosity of foreigners.
It's an enormous cost burden for a developing economy to bear - which is why the past, African governments have preferred to rely on private investment and foreign aid.
Aid workers are hoping the U.N. will have an easier time getting the governments of the Central African Republic and Chad to open the door for better security.
Among other things, the New York Forum AFRICA will bring together African business leaders with business leaders from other regions and continents of the world, providing the opportunity for international investment companies and sovereign wealth funds to meet with and have discussions with African governments and key entrepreneurs on concrete projects and investment opportunities on the continent.
Governments in the region, along with the African Union, have been demanding such measures for several months.
Third, the failed states in Africa and the oxymoronic governments in many African nations create serious politico-military vacuums that terrorists groups can fill and exploit for nefarious ends.
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