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Author: Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780844816807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of an international conference hosted in Washington, D.C. by the Brookings Institution and convened by the Africa Leadership Forum on Sept. 28-29, 1989.Includes index.
Author: Wangari Maathai
Publisher: Lantern Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781590560402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWangari Maathai, founder of The Green Belt Movement, tells its story including the philosophy behind it, its challenges, and objectives.
Author: John Mukum Mbaku
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9781592211791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays, written by an outstanding group of scholars, makes a significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Cameroon, the country's stalled transition to democratic governance, identity and citizenship and the equitable allocation of resources. The essays contain a refreshing, rigorous and informative analysis of the Biya regime, opposition politics and provides practical strategies to enhance peaceful co-existence and sustainable develpment in the country.
Author: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Publisher:
Published: 2007-06-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780979037658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Following years of economic stagnation, Nigeria embarked on a comprehensive reform program during the second term of the Obasanjo administration. The program was based on the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) and focused on four main areas: improving the macroeconomic environment, pursuing structural reforms, strengthening public expenditure management, and implementing institutional and governance reforms. This paper reviews Nigeria's recent experience with economic reforms and outlines major policy measures that have been implemented. Although there have been notable achievements under the program, significant challenges exist, particularly in translating the benefits of reforms into welfare improvements for citizens, in improving the domestic business environment, and in extending reform policies to states and local governments." The authors argue that the reform program must be considered as 'initial steps on a long journey'; consequently, they have outlined a number of outstanding issues that need to be addressed by future Nigerian administrations.
Author: David Brady
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2010-01-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0821381016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes leadership affect economic growth and development? Is leadership an exogenous determinant or an endogenous outcome of growth and development processes? Can we differentiate between the two? Do leaders decisions and actions vary in importance over various stages in the process, at least in successful cases? How important is choosing the right economic model? To what extent does leadership affect the explicit or implicit time horizons of policy choices? Is leadership an important determinant of inclusiveness in growth? In what ways do leaders build consensus or institutions to allow time for the economic plan to work? What challenges does economic success generate? How do successful leaders adapt to new problems such as income inequality and a rising middle class? Does the creation of new institutions play any role in solving these problems? Why do leaders often choose second best political economic compromises in economic development? This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between leadership and economic growth. It does not pretend to provide all the answers, but does review the evidence, identify insights and offers examples of leaders making decisions and acting in ways that enhance economic growth. It examines a variety of topics including leaders roles in: promoting national unity, building good solid institutions, choosing innovative and localized policies, and creating political consensus for long run policy implementation. Written by prominent academics and actual policy makers, Leadership and Growth seeks to create a better understanding of the role of leadership in growth and to encourage further studies of the role of leadership in economic growth.
Author: Jeremiah I. Dibua
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1351152904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria and its development trajectory since it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent. He explores various theoretical and empirical issues involved in understanding the crisis, including state, class, gender and culture, often neglected in analysis, from an interdisciplinary, radical political economy perspective. This is the first book to adopt such an approach and to develop a new framework for analyzing Nigeria's and Africa's development crisis. It will influence the debate on the development dilemma of African and Third World societies and will be of interest to scholars and students of race and ethnicity, modern African history, class analysis, gender studies, and development studies.
Author: George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-09-12
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1476667748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the people living there. This collection of new essays rigorously analyzes those frontier development issues--including democracy, leadership, the economy, poverty alleviation through microfinance schemes, food security, education, health and political instability--and offers prescriptions that differ from the dominant neoliberal solutions.
Author: Tangaza College. Institute of Social Ministry. Congress
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9966080368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Kyoso
Publisher: Intercontinental Books
Published:
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProspects and challenges to immigrants in the United States and how they adjust to life in their new homeland.
Author: J. Dibua
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-04
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1137286652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deconstructs the neopatrimonial paradigm that has dominated analysis of Nigerian and African development. It shows that by denying agency to Nigerian societies and devaluing indigenous culture and local realities, Eurocentric diffusionism played a significant role in the failure of development planning.
