Africa S Development In The Twenty First Century

Author : Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang,Martin Kwamina Panford
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754644782

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Africa's Development in the Twenty-first Century by Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang,Martin Kwamina Panford Pdf

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 : Matthew Kofi Ocran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030107703

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Economic Development in the Twenty-first Century by Matthew Kofi Ocran Pdf

This book uses lessons from history to help African countries take charge of their own economic development agenda. History is an important part of Africa’s economic development narrative, and Ocran investigates how the development outcomes between Africa and Western Europe became so divergent when in the early medieval period average income levels and economic development in the two regions differed only marginally. The sixteenth century marked a turning point, with the emergence of Western European mercantilism and capitalism and their associated exploitation of other countries. In understanding Africa’s economic development, it is crucial to recognise that Africa has not always been poor. Examining 400 years of enslavement and colonisation, this book takes us to present day Africa and economic issues affecting the continent. With selected case studies from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore to South Korea and China, Ocran proposes ways to break out of the economic development quandary Africa currently faces.

Author : Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang,Martin Kwamina Panford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:654149763

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Africa's Development in the Twenty-first Century by Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang,Martin Kwamina Panford Pdf

Author : Gashawbeza Bekele,Adebayo Oyebade
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498564526

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Africa in the Twenty-First Century by Gashawbeza Bekele,Adebayo Oyebade Pdf

This book interrogates contemporary debates, controversies, achievements, challenges, and future prospects of African development and democratization from varied theoretical perspectives. The diverse issues and sub-themes addressed in this volume include tenets of democracy such as democratization, democratic institutions, good governance, term limits, minority rights, and women’s political participation; and dynamics of development such as economic growth, liberalization, development strategies and models, Millennium Development Goals, uneven regional development,sustainable development challenges, transport development and management, and health and development. Featuring established and emerging scholars, this book is a vital resource for scholars, policy makers, and students interested in African politics and development.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137051134

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Africa at the Millennium by NA NA Pdf

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 : Alan H. Gelb
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821344951

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Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? by Alan H. Gelb Pdf

Africa in the 21st Century offers a comprehensive review of development prospects in each of the major development sectors.

Author : Suresh Chandra Saxena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015052445528

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Africa Beyond 2000 by Suresh Chandra Saxena Pdf

Author : Sam Moyo,Praveen Jha,Paris Yeros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811058400

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Reclaiming Africa by Sam Moyo,Praveen Jha,Paris Yeros Pdf

This book presents the findings of research conducted by scholars and activists associated with the Agrarian South Network, based mainly in Africa, Asia and Latina America. The research articulates a Southern perspective on the “new scramble” for Africa, with a view to strengthen tri-continental solidarities. The book explains the significance of the new scramble in terms of the economic structures inherited from the late-nineteenth-century scramble and the subsequent post-independence period. The renewed competition for Africa’s land and natural resources and the resumption of economic growth at the turn of the millennium have revived concerns regarding the continent’s position in the world economy and the prospects for its development in the twenty-first century. In this regard, the book addresses two related issues: the character of the expansion of Southern competitors in relation to the more established Western strategies; and the impact of the renewed influx of investments in land, minerals, and associated infrastructure. The findings are presented with empirical rigor and conceptual clarity, to enable the reader to grasp what really is at stake in the twenty-first century – an epic struggle to reclaim Africa from the monopolies that exercise control over its land, minerals, labour, and destiny.

Author : Adebayo O. Olukoshi,Lennart Wohlgemuth
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9171063609

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A Road to Development by Adebayo O. Olukoshi,Lennart Wohlgemuth Pdf

States that the emerging vision in Africa is toward the development of an adaptive and diversified economy, with an increased role for the private sector and a reduced role for the state in directly productive economic activities. This vision must incorporate : a growing, diversified and flexible economy; incorporation of poverty alleviation in any strategy to improve conditions; a competitive private sector; and, a low profile for the state in production. Stresses that appropriate structural adjustme.

Author : Olusegun Oladipo
Publisher : Hope Publishing Company (IL)
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073026853

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Remaking Africa by Olusegun Oladipo Pdf

Author : Bade Onimode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000078270018

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Africa in the World of the 21st Century by Bade Onimode Pdf

Author : John Mukum Mbaku
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429764356

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Preparing Africa for the Twenty-First Century by John Mukum Mbaku Pdf

First published in 1999, this volume is written by seasoned African scholars and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on peaceful coexistence and sustainable development in the continent. The book contains a very refreshing, rigorous, informative and multidisciplinary analysis of the transition in Africa and provides practical and effective policy options for Africans. It breaks new ground in that it emphasizes the importance of institutions to economic growth and development in Africa. As such, it differs significantly from previous efforts which have tended to blame Africa’s underdevelopment on incompetent, ill-informed and poorly educated leadership. While agreeing that the shortage of competent and skilled technocrats has been a significant problem for many African countries during the last four decades, the contributors argue that the most critical determinant of poverty and deprivation in the continent has been the absence of institutional arrangements that enhance the creation of wealth and allow ethnic and other social cleavages to live together peacefully. Thus, as Africans prepare their societies for the new century, the first line of business should be state reconstruction - a task that was supposed to have been undertaken shortly after independence but was never accomplished. The main purpose of such an exercise is for each African country to design and adopt institutional arrangements that enhance peaceful coexistence of groups, the creation of wealth, and sustainable development.

Author : Aderanti Adepoju
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780595364640

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African Families in the Twenty-first Century by Aderanti Adepoju Pdf

African Families in the Twenty-First Century explores the idea that the family is the basic unit of society and an enduring multifunctional institution in Africa. The functions and structures of African families, as well as the multiple roles played by Africa's women, are undergoing structural changes. The ways in which education, employment, and current economic conditions reshape these complex roles are immense. The challenges facing African families and their members-such as globalization, war, poverty, economic restructuring, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, harmful traditional practices, aging, and care and support of the elderly-have magnified due to a series of economic, social, political, religious, ecological, and other related factors. Author Aderanti Adepoju explores the vulnerability and resilience of African families in the face of these crises and challenges. He also looks at the opportunities facing African families in the new millennium. Because of the importance of African families to the development process, African Families in the Twenty-First Century is essential reading for planners, policy makers, activists, academics, and students.

Author : S. Cornelissen,F. Cheru,T. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230355743

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Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century by S. Cornelissen,F. Cheru,T. Shaw Pdf

This book examines key emergent trends related to aspects of power, sovereignty, conflict, peace, development, and changing social dynamics in the African context. It challenges conventional IR precepts of authority, politics and society, which have proven to be so inadequate in explaining African processes. Rather, this edited collection analyses the significance of many of the uncharted dimensions of Africa's international relations, such as the respatialisation of African societies through migration, and the impacts this process has had on state power; the various ways in which both formal and informal authority and economies are practised; and the dynamics and impacts of new transnational social movements on African politics. Finally, attention is paid to Africa's place in a shifting global order, and the implications for African international relations of the emergence of new world powers and/or alliances. This edition includes a new preface by the editors, which brings the findings of the book up-to-date, and analyses the changes that are likely to impact upon global governance and human development in policy and practice in Africa and the wider world post-2015.

Author : Kidane Mengisteab
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 0865435596

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Globalization and Autocentricity in Africa's Development in the 21st Century by Kidane Mengisteab Pdf

African economies are the most dependent and the most marginalised in the global system. Prevailing policies to integrate these economies more closely with the global economy are, in the view of many misplaced and this work presents a series of alternative strategies that will tap the energies of the African people to develop their own potential and reduce their dependence on World Bank/IMF-led approaches.