Africa's development challenges and the World Bank : hard questions, costly choices / edited by Stephen K. Commins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Commins, Stephen K.

World Bank.

University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center

University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center. Development Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Economic policy--Congresses.

Africa.

Economic policy.

Africa--Economic conditions--1960---Congresses.

Economic conditions.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 243 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner, 1988.

Contents:

Africa's development challenge / Stephen K. Commins

What can be done in Africa? : the World Bank's response / Edward Jaycox

Policy reforms for economic development in Tanzania / Nguyuru Lipumba

Impact of the World Bank-supported Agricultural Development Project on rural women in Zambia / Monica Munachonga

Issues of political economy in formulating donor policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Christiansen, Cheryl Christensen, and Beatrice Edwards

The political basis for agricultural policy reform / Robert Bates

Food aid and policy-based lending to Africa / Raymond Hopkins

Political economy and policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa / Carol Lancaster

Bureaucratic growth and economic stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa / David Abernethy

Structural adjustment in the longer run / Charles Elliott.

Notes:

"Originated at a conference ('Africa's Development Challenge and the World Bank Response') held at UCLA in November 1986 ... co-sponsored and co-funded by the World Bank, UCLA's African Studies Center, and the Center's Development Institute"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

155587116X

OCLC:

17954214