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Author: Alan H. Gelb
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780821344958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica in the 21st Century offers a comprehensive review of development prospects in each of the major development sectors.
Author: Maha Ben Gadha
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2021-10-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780745344072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of how African societies are resisting financial dependency and colonial legacies
Author: Ama Mazama
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-11-21
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1135906580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found in every nation. The volume is structured around four sections: I. African Unity and Consciousness: Assets and Challenges; II. Language, Information, and Education; III. African Women, Children and Families; and IV. Political and Economic Future of the African World. In original essays, the authors raise the level of discourse around the questions of integration, pluralism, families, a federative state, and good governance. Each writer sees in the continent the potential for greatness and therefore articulates a theoretical and philosophical approach to Africa that constructs a victorious consciousness from hard concrete facts. This book will interest students and scholars of the history and politics of Africa as well as professional Africanists, Africologists, and international studies scholars who are inclined toward Africa.
Author: Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780754644781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving been under colonial rule for the first half of the century, by 1965 all but a handful of African countries had regained their independence and were poised to take off into an era of development. However, Africa now suffers from the most acute form of underdevelopment anywhere in the world. Bringing together a broad selection of case studies covering a wide range of key issues, this volume provides a multidisciplinary exploration of Africa's development opportunities and challenges into the twenty-first century.
Author: Fantu Cheru
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 47
ISBN-13: 9789171066329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Musalia Mudavadi
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carlos Lopes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0429791674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebates on African development continue to downplay the achievement of the continent: economic achievements are diminished and the perception of a conflict prone continent continues. Many of the policy prescriptions externally imposed on African countries have done little to transform the continent largely because they have been conceived and applied without context. Using literature from diverse origins, this book expands our knowledge about Africa and makes practical suggestions as to how successful development in a complex, yet dynamic continent can be achieved. Widening the policy dialogue and providing alternative thinking on the key elements and full extent of opportunities and challenges towards achieving the socio-economic transformation of Africa, the book moves the debate from the rhetoric to reality. As a considered reflection on the ‘Africa’s transformation’ narrative, it outlines the practical pathways necessary for Africa’s sustainable development, providing policy makers and researchers with tested solutions. It will be of interest to all scholars, students and policy professionals working in African development, public policy, international political economy, economic policy and politics.
Author: Sall, Ebrima
Publisher: CODESRIA
Published: 2015-10-19
Total Pages: 91
ISBN-13: 2869786018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, held its 13th General Assembly, 5-9 December 2011, in Rabat Morocco. The theme of the scientific conference was: “Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century”. Some of the reasons that influenced the choice of this theme were to do with how Africa should position itself in the new global political and economic order in the context of an increasingly complex neoliberal globalisation. Changes in intercultural relations at the global level, climate change, poverty, rapid urbanisation, the ICTs revolution, the emergence of a multi-polar world and the phenomenon of emerging powers of the South are some of the realities of our world that are widely and extensively discussed by both academics and policy-makers. This book contains the statutory lectures of the 13th General Assembly. Each one speaks to major challenges that Africa and the Global South are facing in this second decade of the Twenty first Century: neoliberal globalisation, capital flight, the land question, gender relations, with a particular focus on matriarchy; and universalism.
Author: Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9789171063601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStates that the emerging vision in Africa is toward the development of an adaptive and diversified economy, with an increased role for the private sector and a reduced role for the state in directly productive economic activities. This vision must incorporate : a growing, diversified and flexible economy; incorporation of poverty alleviation in any strategy to improve conditions; a competitive private sector; and, a low profile for the state in production. Stresses that appropriate structural adjustme.
Author: Matthew Kofi Ocran
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-04-27
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 3030107701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses lessons from history to help African countries take charge of their own economic development agenda. History is an important part of Africa’s economic development narrative, and Ocran investigates how the development outcomes between Africa and Western Europe became so divergent when in the early medieval period average income levels and economic development in the two regions differed only marginally. The sixteenth century marked a turning point, with the emergence of Western European mercantilism and capitalism and their associated exploitation of other countries. In understanding Africa’s economic development, it is crucial to recognise that Africa has not always been poor. Examining 400 years of enslavement and colonisation, this book takes us to present day Africa and economic issues affecting the continent. With selected case studies from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore to South Korea and China, Ocran proposes ways to break out of the economic development quandary Africa currently faces.
