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Author : J. O. Adésn,Yao Graham,Adebayo Olukoshi
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842775952
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Author : Nicholas Awortwi,Herman Musahara
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789994455904
In September 2000, world leaders from 189 countries, including 147 Heads of State, gathered at the United Nations General Assembly to consider the challenges of the new millennium. They adopted the Millennium Declaration, which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization (UN 2000 (A/RES/55/2)). The leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that conditions of extreme poverty are eradicated wherever they existed. To actualise this declaration, the UN established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be achieved by 2015. The goals were broken down into 18 concrete targets and 48 indicators to track progresses in implementation. For the past 14 years thereafter, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been striving to achieve the goals. So far, some have achieved some of the goals, and the results toward the rest of the goals are also by and large positive, though off-target. This book brings together results of studies on progresses and challenges in the implementation of the MDGs in Lesotho, Kenya, Botswana, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Nigeria. The authors focus on selected goals as cases. The book also presents lessons that can inform the post-2015 development agenda.
Author : Jimi O. Adesina,Yao Graham,Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Publisher : Conseil Pour Le Developement De LA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 2869781466
Author : Isa Baud,Elisabetta Basile,Tiina Kontinen,Susanne von Itter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030040529
This book brings together multiple critical assessments of the current state and future visions of global development studies. It examines how the field engages with new paradigms and narratives, methodologies and scientific impact, and perspectives from the Global South. The authors focus on social and democratic transformation, inclusive development and global environmental issues, and implications for research practices. Leading academics provide an excellent overview of recent insights for post-graduate students and scholars in these research areas.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137051134
This book is aimed at providing a framework for African issues in the 21st century. Apart from its African-centered approach, it argues that previously marginalized areas of research require in-depth study. It also introduces new areas of interest absent in existing works. The book pays particular attention to the relative success of African countries and regions in their attempt to find solutions to Africa's problems and the changing role in African states in international relations.
Author : Kobena T. Hanson,Korbla P. Puplampu,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351855013
Millennium development goals (MDGs) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) have significant implications for global development, in particular for African countries. This book seeks to assist Africa’s policy makers and political leaders, MNCs and NGOs, plus its increasingly heterogeneous media landscape, to understand and better respond or negotiate the evolving development environment of the 21st century. In this collection of nuanced essays, the contributors interrogate the relationship between the MDGs and SDGs in key areas of African development to enhance our understanding and knowledge of the evolving nature of development. They address issues of governance, agriculture, south-south cooperation in a context of foreign aid, natural resource governance and sustainable development, export diversification and economic growth as well as emerging topics such as the internet of things or the sharing economy, climate change, conflict and non-traditional security. The varied, yet interlinked foci present a holistic overview of Africa’s development aspirations, and ability to transform the SDGs’ universal aspirations into local realities. This book will be of use to academics and students in Development Studies, Contemporary African Studies, Political Science, Policy Studies and Geography, and should also appeal to policy makers and development practitioners.
Author : Africa Institute of South Africa. Conference,Africa Institute of South Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111006792
Comprises nine papers which explore the challenges facing African countries during the 21st century. Investigates prospects for growth and change. Focuses on economic issues in a globalizing world and on challenges in the areas of information and education.
Author : Kararach, George,Besada, Hany
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447328575
Since 2000, countries across Africa have maintained over a decade of unprecedented economic expansion in a phenomena known as ‘Africa rising’. However, despite pockets of strong economic growth, Africa still faces major development challenges. In this important book the contributors argue that Africa as a continent must work on securing social and political stability and build effective economic governance to ensure the development of a society that is socially, economically and politically inclusive. Looking beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the contributors highlight what they consider to be the 12 major public policy conversations of the continent post-2015, from the legacy of African leadership, to the ‘youth bulge’ (and resulting unemployment) and climate change. The volume presents policy makers, academics and students with a chance to take a fresh look at urgent emerging challenges in post-MDG African development.
Author : Belkacem Laabas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351760171
This title was first published in 2002. In 2000, a major international conference was organized by the Arab Planning Institute to identify, analyze and compare development challenges facing Arab countries at the dawn of the new millennium. An interdisciplinary team of scholars were brought together from the fields of regional science, development studies, economics, business and government policy and together they addressed global, regional and domestic challenges and their impact on the Arab region. This volume brings together the best papers presented at this conference. In doing so, it offers up-to-date insights into, and a clearer understanding of this region. It highlights issues including: economic and social implications of globalization; strategic alliances; the implications for Arab countries of emerging technological patterns; the impact of the European Monetary Union and the euro; Arab regional integration; education; and the development of individual Arab country's economies.
Author : Felix M. Edoho
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313095542
Edoho and his contributors examine the management challenges facing African governments and businesses on the eve of a new millennium. As the authors make clear, Africa's future is defined by how Africa does in the 21st century. For Africa, a major challenge is how to effectively and efficiently manage its vast wealth. Africa is not poor because it is poor—it is poor because it cannot manage its development process. The shortages of managerial knowledge, skills, and talents are pervasive. Consequently, the region lacks the ability to organize production and run operations effectively and efficiently. The task of developing managerial manpower in Africa is not only imperative, it is urgent. After outlining theoretical and applied perspectives on management, the volume examines the public and private sector planning and management. It then explores the globalization of management technology, provides case studies of African management dilemmas, looks at management ethics and morality, and concludes with an analysis of the role of management in African national development. As the authors make clear, abundant resources will not of themselves usher in an African economic renaissance. Africa needs skills to identify and analyze its resources, to undertake investment, and to establish and run all kinds of organizations. Until Africa develops its indigenous managerial talents, development will continue to be elusive, and the process traumatizing. An important resource for scholars, students, and policy makers involved with African economic development.
Author : Patrick Bond
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1592210090
The New Partnership for Africa's Development plans to develop equitable and sustainable growth in Africa by increasing its integration with the world economy. But NEPAD has come under criticism from major social movements, trade unions and intellectuals for its reliance on corporate-driven globalisation, and its apparent existence as an extension of neo-colonial globalisation. Here, the original NEPAD manifesto is reproduced alongside a paragraph-by-paragraph annotated critique from thinkers and activists around the world.
Author : Besada, Hany,McMillan Polonenko, Leah
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447335719
With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions to provide an in-depth exploration of the MDG project and its impact. Contributors use region-specific case studies to explore the effectiveness of the MDGs in addressing the root causes of poverty, including resource geographies, early childhood development and education, women’s rights and disability rights as well as the impact of the global financial crisis and Arab Spring on MDG attainment. Providing a critical assessment that seeks to inform future policy decisions, the book will be valuable to those working in the development community as well as to academics and students of international development, international relations and development economics.
Author : Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang,Martin Kwamina Panford
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754644782
Having been under colonial rule for the first half of the century, by 1965 all but a handful of African countries had regained their independence and were poised to take off into an era of development. However, Africa now suffers from the most acute form of underdevelopment anywhere in the world. Bringing together a broad selection of case studies covering a wide range of key issues, this volume provides a multidisciplinary exploration of Africa's development opportunities and challenges into the twenty-first century.
Author : Carlos Lopes,George Kararach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429791673
Debates on African development continue to downplay the achievement of the continent: economic achievements are diminished and the perception of a conflict prone continent continues. Many of the policy prescriptions externally imposed on African countries have done little to transform the continent largely because they have been conceived and applied without context. Using literature from diverse origins, this book expands our knowledge about Africa and makes practical suggestions as to how successful development in a complex, yet dynamic continent can be achieved. Widening the policy dialogue and providing alternative thinking on the key elements and full extent of opportunities and challenges towards achieving the socio-economic transformation of Africa, the book moves the debate from the rhetoric to reality. As a considered reflection on the ‘Africa’s transformation’ narrative, it outlines the practical pathways necessary for Africa’s sustainable development, providing policy makers and researchers with tested solutions. It will be of interest to all scholars, students and policy professionals working in African development, public policy, international political economy, economic policy and politics.
Author : George Klay Kieh
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015082655195
There is a general consensus that Africa entered the 21st century plagued by multifaceted crises of underdevelopment. This is evidenced by abject poverty, the inadequacy of basic human needs, environmental degradation and violent civil conflicts. George Klay Kieh Jr argues that in order to reverse the negative effects of Africa's peripheral status the neo-colonial state must be democratically reconstituted. Once this has happened the foundations can be laid for government policies that address and fulfil basic human needs.