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List of contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
General IntroductionWhat Ails African Economies: Lessons from Over-Stretched Underdevelopment
The Human Factor and The Failure of Economic Development and Policies in Africa
Theoretical Perspectives on African Economic DevelopmentEmployment and Productivity in African Agriculture: Theory and Empirical Analysis
The Role of Urban Informal Activity in the Rural-to-Urban Transition in Africa
Technological Change Strategy for Economic Development in Africa
National Income and Consumption Planning in African Countries: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Corruption and Economic Development in Africa: A Comparative Analysis
African Subsistence Labor Allocation: A Model with Implications for Rural Development and Urban Unemployment
Structural Perspectives on African UnderdevelopmentAfrica's Debt Crisis: The African Position towards the Solution
Industrializing Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cooperative Rather than a Competitive Effort
Bankrupting the Lower Income Classes in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Political Economy of Development in Africa: Reflections on Orthodox Thinking and Policy
Education and Economic Growth in Ghana
Index
About the author
SENYO B-S. K. ADJIBOLOSOO is Professor of Business and Economics at Trinity Western University in Canada and Director of the International Institute for Human Factor Development (IIHFD) Society. His research interests include heteroskedasiticity pretesting in regression analysis, human factor development, history of economic thought, and international business and trade. He is coeditor of Perspectives on Economic Development in Africa (Praeger, 1994), and editor of The Significance of the Human Factor in African Economic Development (Praeger, 1995).
FIDELIS EZEALA-HARRISON is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of New Brunswick. Dr. Ezeala-Harrison is the author of many journal articles on economic development and is co-editor of Perspectives on Economic Development in Africa (Praeger, 1994).
