Africa's Development in Historical Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa's Development in Historical Perspective write by Emmanuel Akyeampong. This book was released on 2014-08-11. Africa's Development in Historical Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.
The Idea of Development in Africa
The Idea of Development in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Idea of Development in Africa write by Corrie Decker. This book was released on 2020-10-29. The Idea of Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.
Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs
Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs write by African Union Commission. This book was released on 2021-01-19. Africa’s Development Dynamics 2021 Digital Transformation for Quality Jobs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.
Economic Growth and Development in Africa
Economic Growth and Development in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Economic Growth and Development in Africa write by Horman Chitonge. This book was released on 2015-01-09. Economic Growth and Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, Africa has undergone the longest period of sustained economic growth in the continent’s history, drawing the attention of the international media and academics alike. This book analyses the Africa Rising narrative from multidisciplinary perspectives, offering a critical assessment of the explanations given for the poor economic growth and development performance in Africa prior to the millennium and the dramatic shift towards the new Africa. Bringing in perspectives from African intellectuals and scholars, many of whom have previously been overlooked in this debate, the book examines the construction of Africa’s economic growth and development portraits over the years. It looks at two institutions that play a vital role in African development, providing a detailed explanation of how the World Bank and the IMF have interpreted and dealt with the African challenges and experiences. The insightful analysis reveals that if Africa is rising, only 20-30 per cent of Africans are aboard the rising ship, and the main challenge facing the continent today is to bring on board the majority of Africans who have been excluded from growth. This book makes the complex, and sometimes confusing debates on Africa’s economic growth experience more accessible to a wide range of readers interested in the Africa story. It is essential reading for students and researchers in African Studies, and will be of great interest to scholars in Development Studies, Political Economy, and Development Economics.
Democracy and Development in Africa
Democracy and Development in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and Development in Africa write by Claude Ake. This book was released on 2001-09-19. Democracy and Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans, incomes are lower than they were two decades ago, health prospects are poorer, malnourishment is widespread, and infrastructures and social institutions are breaking down. An array of factors have been offered to explain the apparent failure of development in Africa, including the colonial legacy, social pluralism, corruption, poor planning and incompetent management, limited in-flow of foreign capital, and low levels of saving and investment. Alone or in combination, these factors are serious impediments to development, but Claude Ake contends that the problem is not that development has failed, but that it was never really on the agenda. He maintains that political conditions in Africa are the greatest impediment to development. In this book, Ake traces the evolution and failure of development policies, including the IMF stabilization programs that have dominated international efforts. He identifies the root causes of the problem in the authoritarian political structure of the African states derived from the previous colonial entities. Ake sketches the alternatives that are struggling to emerge from calamitous failure--economic development based on traditional agriculture, political development based on the decentralization of power, and reliance on indigenous communities that have been providing some measure of refuge from the coercive power of the central state. Ake's argument may become a new paradigm for development in Africa.
