Renewing development in Sub-Saharan Africa : policy, performance and prospects / edited by Deryke Belshaw and Ian Livingston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Livingstone, Ian.

Belshaw, D. G. R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Structural adjustment (Economic policy).

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions--1960-.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ke

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Ian Livingstone - a tribute; Preface; Acknowledgements; Development in sub-Saharan Africa: progress and problems; Conflict prevention and conflict resolution: interventions and results; The economics and political economy of conflict in sub-Saharan Africa; Planning for post-conflict rehabilitation; Smallholder farming in Africa: stasis and dynamics; The intensification of small-scale livestock enterprises: progress and prospects; Development and change in Sahelian dryland agriculture

Paying for agricultural research and extensionNew institutional economics, agricultural parastatals and marketing policy; Agricultural marketing in Africa since Berg and Bates: results of liberalisation; The dimensions of food aid in sub-Saharan Africa: policy lessons; Rural poverty reduction in Africa: strategic options in rural development; The role of non-governmental organisations in African development: critical issues; Prospects for rural labour force absorption through rural industry; An overview of manufacturing development in sub-Saharan Africa

Could import protection drive manufacturing exports in Africa?Stimulating economic recovery through private sector development; Economic growth, wellbeing and governance in Africa's urban sector; Information needs for urban policy making in Africa; Trade policy reforms in sub-Saharan Africa: implementation and outcomes in the 1990s; The non-recovery of agricultural tradables and its consequences for rural poverty; Disadvantaged economies: Africa's landlocked countries; Creating a sustainable regional framework for development: the Southern African Development Community

Gender and development: policy issues in the context of globalisationHealth and sickness: towards health systems that meet the needs of the poor; Achieving schooling for all: is gender a constraint or an opportunity?; Final observations on strategy and policy reform; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-52854-X

1-280-14198-0

0-203-99650-X

9780203996508

OCLC:

275234791