African Development and Europe

Report of a Seminar of the International Student Movement for the United Nations, Cambridge, March 1966

Peter Tregear, John Burley

• Publisher: Pergamon
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780080066691
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483151052
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

African Development and Europe focuses on various areas of cooperation between Europe and Africa with respect to development, including agricultural and industrial development, technological cooperation, and political relationships. Topics covered include the diversification of African agriculture and the role of private investors in African development, along with changes in trading relations between Europe and Africa. Problems of rural development and the role of the civil service in development are also discussed. This book is comprised of 11 chapters and begins by providing a background on African agriculture, including its diversification and the agricultural revolution in West African countries. The discussion then turns to the establishment of an industrial complex in Africa; the contribution of the private investor to African development; the importance of manpower and management in Africa's industrial development; and changes in commercial relations between Europe and Africa. The activities carried out by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in Africa are also discussed. The final chapter deals with the political relations between Africa and Europe, paying particular attention to Pan-Africanism and how Africa's dependence on Europe affects the pace towards Pan-African unity. This monograph will be of interest to diplomats, politicians, policymakers, and postgraduate students concerned with international relations.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• African Development and Europe
• Copyright Page
• Table of Content
• Message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Biographical Notes on the Principal Contributors
• Chapter 1. The Diversification of African Agriculture
• Chapter 2. The Agricultural Revolution in French West Africa1
• Chapter 3. The Establishment of an Industrial Complex
• Chapter 4. The Private Investorin African Development
• Chapter 5. Manpower and Management in the Strategy of Industrial Development
• Chapter 6. The Changes in Trading Relations Between Europe and Africa1
• Chapter 7. The UN Institute for Training and Research, and the Administrative Problems of Development
• Chapter 8. The Civil Service and Development
• Chapter 9. Problems of Rural Development
• Chapter 10. Co-operation in the impact of Technological Change
• Chapter 11. Afro-European Political Relationships
• Bibliography
• Index