Renewing Development in Africa: Policy, Performance and Prospects

✍ Scribed by Deryke Belshaw

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 497
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 key equity objectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 13
Ian Livingstone - a tribute......Page 15
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Development in sub-Saharan Africa: progress and problems......Page 22
Conflict prevention and conflict resolution: interventions and results......Page 58
The economics and political economy of conflict in sub-Saharan Africa......Page 74
Planning for post-conflict rehabilitation......Page 100
Smallholder farming in Africa: stasis and dynamics......Page 120
The intensification of small-scale livestock enterprises: progress and prospects......Page 140
Development and change in Sahelian dryland agriculture......Page 154
Paying for agricultural research and extension......Page 172
New institutional economics, agricultural parastatals and marketing policy......Page 185
Agricultural marketing in Africa since Berg and Bates: results of liberalisation......Page 195
The dimensions of food aid in sub-Saharan Africa: policy lessons......Page 210
Rural poverty reduction in Africa: strategic options in rural development......Page 234
The role of non-governmental organisations in African development: critical issues......Page 249
Prospects for rural labour force absorption through rural industry......Page 267
An overview of manufacturing development in sub-Saharan Africa......Page 282
Could import protection drive manufacturing exports in Africa?......Page 304
Stimulating economic recovery through private sector development......Page 316
Economic growth, wellbeing and governance in Africa's urban sector......Page 328
Information needs for urban policy making in Africa......Page 347
Trade policy reforms in sub-Saharan Africa: implementation and outcomes in the 1990s......Page 358
The non-recovery of agricultural tradables and its consequences for rural poverty......Page 373
Disadvantaged economies: Africa's landlocked countries......Page 391
Creating a sustainable regional framework for development: the Southern African Development Community......Page 408
Gender and development: policy issues in the context of globalisation......Page 430
Health and sickness: towards health systems that meet the needs of the poor......Page 445
Achieving schooling for all: is gender a constraint or an opportunity?......Page 460
Final observations on strategy and policy reform......Page 476
Index......Page 484