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Author: Alan Hirsch
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1552502155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an insight into the circumstances under which the policies were developed, implemented and reviewed, as well as a study of the outcomes. This book addresses questions such as: How could an organisation with no previous experience of governing accomplish a peaceful transition to democracy? How did they do it and where are they going?
Author: M. Anne Pitcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-05-07
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0521449626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the interaction of formal institutions and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa.
Author: Obed O. Mailafia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-12
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1134753233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the complex, post-colonial relationship between Europe and African states. Using new field work as well as existing material the author explores * the dynamics of diplomacy * the operating practices of EU agreements * responses to debt and structural adjustment
Author: Shinichi Takeuchi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9811647259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.
Author: Nicolas Van de Walle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-24
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521008365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Book explains why African countries have remained mired in a disastrous economic crisis since the late 1970s. It shows that dynamics internal to African state structures largely explain this failure to overcome economic difficulties rather than external pressures on these same structures as is often argued. Far from being prevented from undertaking reforms by societal interest and pressure groups, clientelism within the state elite, ideological factors and low state capacity have resulted in some limited reform, but much prevarication and manipulation of the reform process, by governments which do not really believe that reform will be effective.
Author: Arkebe Oqubay
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0198830505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume considers China-Africa relations in the context of a global division of labour and power, and through the history and experiences of both China and Africa. It examines the core ideas of structural transformation, productive investment and industrialization, international trade, infrastructure development, and financing.
Author: Doctor Stefan Andreasson
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 184813603X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.
Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 155250204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Author: Peter D. Little
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780253010797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the local effects of major economic and political reforms in Africa? How have globalized pro-market and pro-democracy reforms impacted local economics and communities? Examining case studies from The Gambia, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Peter D. Little shows how rural farmers and others respond to complex agendas of governments, development agencies, and non-governmental organizations. The book explores the contradictions between what policy reforms were supposed to do and what actually happened in local communities. Little's vision of development challenges common narratives of African poverty, dependency, and environmental degradation and suggests that sustainable development in Africa can best be achieved by strengthening local livelihoods, markets, and institutions. --From publisher's description.
Author: Jennifer A. Widner
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAims to establish the nature of the relationship between the economic challenges of the 1980s and the steps toward greater political openness taken by governments at the end of that decade.
