Strategies for African Development
  1. 618 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. The Policy Setting: Crisis and Consensus
  5. PART I. MANAGING AFRICAN ECONOMIES
  6. 1. Africa's Colonial Legacy
  7. 2. African Social Structure and Economic Development
  8. 3. Governance and Economic Management
  9. PART II. THE PEOPLE AND THE LAND
  10. 4. Guarding Africa's Renewable Resources
  11. 5. Population and Health: Africa's Most Basic Resource and Development Problem
  12. PART III. AGRICULTURE
  13. 6. Governmental Strategies for Agricultural Development
  14. 7. Putting the Farmer in Control: Building Agricultural Institutions
  15. 8. Agricultural Research: Lessons of the Past, Strategies for the Future
  16. 9. Strategic Issues in Combating Hunger and Poverty in Africa
  17. PART IV. INDUSTRY
  18. 10. Can Africa Industrialize?
  19. 11. Small-Scale Industry
  20. 12. Private Investment and African Economic Policy
  21. PART V. HUMAN RESOURCES
  22. 13. African Education: Problems in a High- Growth Sector
  23. 14. Women's Role in Development
  24. 15. Manpower, Technology, and Employment in Africa: Internal and External Policy Agendas
  25. PART VI. AFRICA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
  26. 16. Africa's Debt: Structural Adjustment with Stability
  27. 17. Africa's Trade and the World Economy
  28. 18. Foreign Aid in Africa: Here's the Answer— Is It Relevant to the Question?
  29. Appendix I. Tabular Appendix
  30. Appendix II. Compact for African Development
  31. Notes on Contributors
  32. Index

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