Democracy and Development in Africa

✍ Scribed by Claude Ake

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 185
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Despite three decades of preoccupations with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still-stagnating or regressing.

✦ Table of Contents

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication data......Page 3
Foreword......Page 6
Improbable Strategies......Page 52
Agriculture......Page 53
Agricultural Policy Initiatives in Nigeria......Page 58
Nigerian Agriculture in the Era of Structural Adjustment......Page 63
Tanzanian Agriculture under Structural Adjustment......Page 71
Conclusion: The Problem of Agriculture......Page 74
Tanzania and Kenya......Page 88
Nigeria......Page 90
Conclusion......Page 91
Ghana......Page 98
Blocked Options......Page 110
The Worsening Situation......Page 115
Tentative Attempts to Solve the Problem......Page 118
Marginalization and Its Genesis......Page 125
The Benefits of Marginalization......Page 130
The African Experience......Page 132
The Residual Option......Page 136
The Smallholder Focus......Page 160
Constraints of the Smallholder Approach......Page 163
Rural Industrialization......Page 165
Complementary Policies......Page 167
References......Page 173
Index......Page 179

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