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Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Policy, Performance and Prospects

Name: Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Author: Belshaw Deryke Curatore Livingstone the late Arthur Ian Curatore
ISBN: 9780415252188

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Genere:Libro

Lingua: Inglese

Editore:

Routledge

Pubblicazione: 12/2001

Edizione: 1° edizione

Trama

This collection reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. The lay the foundation for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components are prioritized according to each country's constrains and opportunities.

Note Editore

Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. They lay the foundation for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components are prioritized according to each country's constraints and opportunities. The emphasis of the book is on the identification of effective strategies that will enable individual countries to most effectively exploit their growth opportunities and to meet poverty-reducing and other key equity objectives.

Sommario

Part I: Introduction

1: Africa's Economic Problems

Part II: Conflict and Power

2: Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution: Interventions and Results; 3: The Economics and Political Economy of Conflict; 4: Planning for Post-conflict Rehabilitation

Part III: Agriculture and the Rural Sector

5: Small-holder Farming in Africa: Statis and Dynamics; 6: The Intensification of Small-scale Livestock Enterprises: Progress and Prospects; 7: Development and Change in Sahelian Dryland Agriculture; 8: Paying for Agricultural Research and Extension; 9: Policy Issues in Agricultural Marketing; 10: Agricultural Marketing in Africa since Berg and Bates: Results of Liberalisation; 11: The Dimensions of Food Aid and Lessons for Policy; 12: Rural Development: Past Experience and Future Directions; 13: Prospects for Rural Labour Force Absorption through Rural Industry; 14: Achieving Sustainable Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa

Part IV: Industry and the Urban Sector

15: An Overview of Manufacturing Development; 16: Could Import Protection Drive Manufacturing Exports in Africa?; 17: Stimulating Economic Recovery through Private Sector Development; 18: Economic Growth, Welfare and Governance in Africa's Urban Sector; 19: Information Needs for Urban Policy-Making in Africa

Part V: International Trade and Transport Constraints

20: Implementation and Outcomes of African Trade Policy Reforms in the 1990s; 21: The Non-Recovery of Agricultural Tradables and its Consequences for Rural Poverty; 22: Disadvantaged Economies: Africa's Landlocked Countries

Part VI: Gender, Health and Education

23: Gender and Development: Policy Issues in the Context of Globalisation; 24: The Dimensions of Africa's Health Problems; 25: Achieving Primary Schooling for All: Gender as Constraint or Opportunity?

Part VII: Conclusion

26: Policy Conclusions and Research Needs

Autore

Deryke Belshaw is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and Dean of Development Studies at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Ian Livingstone was Professor of Development Economics at the University of East Anglia.