Our Continent, Our Future
Our Continent, Our Future

Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 155250204X

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Our 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.

Policy Adjustment in Africa
Policy Adjustment in Africa

Author: Chris Milner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1992-06-18

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1349120421

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The volume provides a range of case studies and both complements and advances core texts on economic development. The topics addressed cover a range of issues around the theme of policy adjustment.

Structural Adjustment and Socio-economic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Structural Adjustment and Socio-economic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Peter Gibbon

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9789171063977

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This report summarises the results of work at the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet/Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) on the impact of structural adjustment implementation on the economies, states and societies of sub-Saharan Africa. It consists of two essays and an appendix listing research projects which have been/are being carried out under the auspices of NAI. The first essay raises a series of conceptual and methodological questions in the context of a presentation of some of the main empirical results obtained from extended field work carried out during the course of 1992 and 1993 in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The second essay presents the three main themes - private trading networks and structures, the changing political economy of land, and popular forms of social provisioning - that constitute the core of the second phase of NAI's structural adjustment research and, in so doing, provides a review of aspects of the adjustment literature. This report is, therefore, an attempt both at stock-taking and agenda-building as part of a wider quest for deepening our understanding of the structures and processes of socio-economic change associated with the crisis and adjustment years in contemporary Africa

The State of Food and Agriculture 1998
The State of Food and Agriculture 1998

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9789251042007

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This annual report provides basic information on the global agricultural situation. A review of developments in food security opens this year's report, with new estimates on the proportion & number of undernourished people in the developing world. Also included is an analysis of the Asian financial crisis & its likely effects on agricultural production, trade, & food security. Special features include: an examination of the potential of rice fish farming; a chapter on rural non-farm income & employment; & a diskette housing time series data for nearly 150 countries, country groups, & regions in English, French, & Spanish. Recommended in: ALA's Guide to Reference Books.

The Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya’s Electoral Violence
The Socio-Cultural, Ethnic and Historic Foundations of Kenya’s Electoral Violence

Author: Stephen M. Magu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-02

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1351142429

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Kenya’s 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country’s history; 1,133 people were killed, while 600,000 were internally displaced. Within 2 months, the incumbent and the challenger had agreed to a power-sharing agreement and a Government of National Unity. This book investigates the role of socio-cultural origins of ethnic conflict during electoral periods in Kenya beginning with the multi-party era of democratization and the first multi-party elections of 1992, illustrating how ethnic groups construct their interests and cooperate (or fail to) based on shared traits. The author demonstrates that socio-cultural traditions have led to the collaboration (and frequent conflict) between the Kikuyu and Kalenjin that has dominated power and politics in independent Kenya. The author goes onto evaluate the possibility of peace for future elections. This book will be of interest to scholars of African democracy, Kenyan history and politics, and ethnic conflict.

The State of Food and Agriculture 2001
The State of Food and Agriculture 2001

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2002-07-30

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9789251046005

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This year's special section (Part 3) entitled 'Economic impacts of transboundary plant pests and animal diseases'.