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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.
List of contents
Part I: Introduction1: Africa's Economic ProblemsPart II: Conflict and Power2: Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution: Interventions and Results; 3: The Economics and Political Economy of Conflict; 4: Planning for Post-conflict RehabilitationPart III: Agriculture and the Rural Sector5: Small-holder Farming in Africa: Statis and Dynamics; 6: The Intensification of Small-scale Livestock Enterprises: Progress and Prospects; 7: Development and Change in Sahelian Dryland Agriculture; 8: Paying for Agricultural Research and Extension; 9: Policy Issues in Agricultural Marketing; 10: Agricultural Marketing in Africa since Berg and Bates: Results of Liberalisation; 11: The Dimensions of Food Aid and Lessons for Policy; 12: Rural Development: Past Experience and Future Directions; 13: Prospects for Rural Labour Force Absorption through Rural Industry; 14: Achieving Sustainable Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan AfricaPart IV: Industry and the Urban Sector15: An Overview of Manufacturing Development; 16: Could Import Protection Drive Manufacturing Exports in Africa?; 17: Stimulating Economic Recovery through Private Sector Development; 18: Economic Growth, Welfare and Governance in Africa's Urban Sector; 19: Information Needs for Urban Policy-Making in AfricaPart V: International Trade and Transport Constraints20: Implementation and Outcomes of African Trade Policy Reforms in the 1990s; 21: The Non-Recovery of Agricultural Tradables and its Consequences for Rural Poverty; 22: Disadvantaged Economies: Africa's Landlocked CountriesPart VI: Gender, Health and Education23: Gender and Development: Policy Issues in the Context of Globalisation; 24: The Dimensions of Africa's Health Problems; 25: Achieving Primary Schooling for All: Gender as Constraint or Opportunity?Part VII: Conclusion26: Policy Conclusions and Research Needs
About the author
Deryke Belshaw is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and Dean of Development Studies at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Ian Livingstone was Professor of Development Economics at the University of East Anglia.
Summary
Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa reviews the ensuing debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development.
