Endogenous Regional Policy And Development Planning In Ghana

Author : Sam C.M. Ofori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000177190

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Endogenous Regional Policy and Development Planning in Ghana by Sam C.M. Ofori Pdf

This book examines regional development and planning in a poor administrative region of Ghana, assessing the effectiveness of the programmes and projects initiated to reduce poverty, disadvantage and deprivation. The author analyses the local context of institutions, planning legislation, broad external (exogenous) and internal (endogenous) influencing factors and forces. He then assesses how they have impacted the effectiveness of regional policy interventions aimed at social and economic development. Using applied planning principles, the book proposes policies to address the challenges of Local Economic Development (LED), urban regeneration and conservation, housing regeneration and regional sustainability in the developing world. This book will be of interest to students, scholars policy-makers and regional planning practitioners in urban and regional development and planning, geography and African Studies.

Author : Sam Ofori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351726399

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Regional Policy and Regional Planning in Ghana by Sam Ofori Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: This work is about the socio-economic and spatial impacts of planning policy aimed at improving the living standards and well-being of the regional communities of Ghana. Implicit, the effectiveness assessment of regional planning practice. It is set within the context of the new national planning system and offers strategic opportunities and challenges. Characteristically, the national and regional policies and contacts are probed and the lack of formal regional plan-making stressed. The author critically analyzes the problem of socio-economic and spatial disparities, over the mid-60s to the early 1990s, explaining the observed changes. The latter is, differentiatingly, done in terms of relevant theories and the empirics undertaken. These include the fashion of perception and conceptualization of development. Change is based on one-off micro-projects at the regional level and a meso-regional project within a sub-regional context. Dr Ofori equally stresses the implementations and local management of the planning policies and programmes. Inclusive in the dynamics behind the processes is the role of partnership. A further distinctive contribution is the identification of opportunities for planning intervention and policy recommendations for a better change in the future: towards making things happen.

Author : Gedion Onyango
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000513943

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Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa by Gedion Onyango Pdf

This Handbook provides an authoritative and foundational disciplinary overview of African Public Policy and a comprehensive examination of the practicalities of policy analysis, policymaking processes, implementation, and administration in Africa today. The book assembles a multidisciplinary team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers and policy experts working inside and outside Africa to analyse the historical and emerging policy issues in 21st-century Africa. While mostly attentive to comparative public policy in Africa, this book attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions: How can public policy be understood and taught in Africa? How does policymaking occur in unstable political contexts, or in states under pressure? Has the democratisation of governing systems improved policy processes in Africa? How have recent transformations, such as technological proliferation in Africa, impacted public policy processes? What are the underlying challenges and potential policy paths for Africa going forward? The contributions examine an interplay of prevailing institutional, political, structural challenges and opportunities for policy effectiveness to discern striking commonalities and trajectories across different African states. This is a valuable resource for practitioners, politicians, researchers, university students, and academics interested in studying and understanding how African countries are governed.

Author : Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam,Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe,Sola Timothy Babatunde,Olutola Opeyemi Akindipe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000203202

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Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora by Ahmad Shehu Abdussalam,Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe,Sola Timothy Babatunde,Olutola Opeyemi Akindipe Pdf

This book examines the intersection between cultural identities and development in African and the Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives. Starting with the premise that culture is one of the most significant factors in development, the book examines diverse topics such as the migrations of musical forms, social media, bilingualism and religion. Foregrounding the work of Africa based scholars, the book presents strategies for identifying solutions to the challenges facing African culture and development. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies and African Culture and Society.

Author : Abiodun Salawu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000224016

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African Language Media by Abiodun Salawu Pdf

This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable African language media businesses. The chapters explore the political economy and management of African language media and consider case studies of the successes and failures of African language newspapers, as well as the challenges of developing quality journalism. Covering print and digital newspapers and broadcast journalism, this book will be of interest to scholars of media and journalism in Africa.

Author : Sabella Ogbobode Abidde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429511141

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African Scholars and Intellectuals in North American Academies by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde Pdf

This book examines the process and events surrounding the migration of African scholars, as well as their lives and lived experiences within and outside of their colleges and universities. The chapters chronicle the lived-experiences and observations of African scholars in North America and examine a range of issues, ideas, and phenomena within North American colleges and universities. The contributors examine the political, ethnic, or religious upheavals that informed their migration or banishment; contrast the teaching-learning-research environment in Africa and North America; and discuss on and off-campus experience with segregation and racial inequality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the African Diaspora, migration, and African Studies.

Author : Uri Dorchin,Gabriella Djerrahian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000258264

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Blackness in Israel by Uri Dorchin,Gabriella Djerrahian Pdf

This book explores contemporary inflections of blackness in Israel and foreground them in the historical geographies of Europe, the Middle East, and North America. The contributors engage with expressions and appropriations of modern forms of blackness for boundary-making, boundary-breaking, and boundary-re-making in contemporary Israel, underscoring the deep historical roots of contemporary understandings of race, blackness, and Jewishness. Allowing a new perspective on the sociology of Israel and the realm of black studies, this volume reveals a highly nuanced portrait of the phenomenon of blackness, one that is located at the nexus of global, regional, national and local dimensions. While race has been discussed as it pertains to Judaism at large, and Israeli society in particular, blackness as a conceptual tool divorced from phenotype, skin tone and even music has yet to be explored. Grounded in ethnographic research, the study demonstrates that many ethno-racial groups that constitute Israeli society intimately engage with blackness as it is repeatedly and explicitly addressed by a wide array of social actors. Enhancing our understanding of the politics of identity, rights, and victimhood embedded within the rhetoric of blackness in contemporary Israel, this book will be of interest to scholars of blackness, globalization, immigration, and diaspora.

Author : Roberto Castillo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000338096

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African Transnational Mobility in China by Roberto Castillo Pdf

Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and it transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.

Author : Joseph A. Balogun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000319613

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Healthcare Education in Nigeria by Joseph A. Balogun Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time, before investigating new and emerging trends. The book begins with a discussion of the fundamentals of health care education, the art of teaching health care students, and modeling professionalism in health care. The book highlights the work of pioneer Nigerian health care academics, and explores the administration of health care education at departmental level. Finally, it highlights the role of elite Nigerian health care academics in the diaspora, chronicles contemporary challenges in health care education, and makes recommendations for reform. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working on health care education in Africa.

Author : Kodwo Ewusi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015004803261

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Economic Development Planning in Ghana by Kodwo Ewusi Pdf

Monograph on national planning for economic development (economic planning) in Ghana - covers historical and financial aspects, techniques and strategies, etc. Bibliography pp. 79 to 81, references and statistical tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111626011

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Regional Development Policy and Practices in Africa and Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jerzy Bański
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429783265

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Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development by Jerzy Bański Pdf

Dilemmas of Regional and Local Development aims to identify, diagnose and evaluate various approaches towards regional and local socio-economic development. Over the course of the book, authors from 12 countries and four continents come together to review experiences and solutions related to regional development in a range of different economic, social and political systems. The first part of the volume focuses on the fundamentals of planning regional and local development, particularly focusing on theoretical solutions and development policy concepts. The second part is more applied, looking at practical instruments and solutions for shaping the local economy, and analysing effective development policy. This book will be of interest to economics, geography, politics, and planning scholars and researchers working on regional sciences and local development.

Author : George Botchie,International Institute for Environment and Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Community development
ISBN : 9781899825745

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Rural District Planning in Ghana by George Botchie,International Institute for Environment and Development Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1133276720

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Regional Policy and Regional Planning in Ghana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chiku Malunga,Susan H. Holcombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317385707

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Endogenous Development by Chiku Malunga,Susan H. Holcombe Pdf

Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa. The resulting development interventions are too rarely locally rooted, locally driven, or resonant with local context. At the same time, theories and practices from developing countries rarely travel to the Western agencies dominating development, undermining the possibility of a beneficial synergy that could be obtained from the best of both worlds. There are many reasons why the experiences of locally driven development are not communicated back to global development actors, including, but not limited to, the marginal role of Southern voices in global forums. This volume gives a platform to authentic African voices and non-African collaborators, to explore what endogenous development means, how it can be implemented, and how an endogenous development approach can shape local, national and global policies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Development in Practice.