Download or read book Underdevelopment Transition and Reconstruction in Sub Saharan Africa written by Tony Addison and published by Unu World Institute for Development Economics Research. This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preparing Africa for the Twenty First Century written by John Mukum Mbaku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Reconstruction from War in Africa written by Tony Addison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transitions in Secondary Education in Sub Saharan Africa written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This World Bank Working Paper discusses equity and efficiency issues in secondary education transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its main purpose is to identify and analyze national, regional, and local measures that may lead to the development of more efficient and seamless transitions between post-primary education pathways. In most African countries student transition from primary to junior secondary is still accompanied by significant repetition and dropout. Transitions within the secondary cycle also cause significant losses and should use more effective assessment and selection methodologies. According to global trends, Africa needs to revisit its post-primary structures to provide more diversified (academic and non-academic) pathways of learning which respond better to the continent's present economic and social realities. In the end, the main goal should be to produce young people who can become productive citizens and lead healthy lives, as demonstrated by middle and higher-income economies.

Download or read book Planning for Development in Sub Saharan Africa written by Ann Willcox Seidman and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1974 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on economic planning and economic policy decision making in English speaking Africa - proposes a model of underdevelopment, and covers export promotion, social structure and economic development, industrial development strategies, agrarian structure, trade policy and commercial policy, financial policy, etc. References.

Download or read book Africa s Infrastructure written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable infrastructure development is vital for Africa s prosperity. And now is the time to begin the transformation. This volume is the culmination of an unprecedented effort to document, analyze, and interpret the full extent of the challenge in developing Sub-Saharan Africa s infrastructure sectors. As a result, it represents the most comprehensive reference currently available on infrastructure in the region. The book covers the five main economic infrastructure sectors information and communication technology, irrigation, power, transport, and water and sanitation. 'Africa s Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation' reflects the collaboration of a wide array of African regional institutions and development partners under the auspices of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa. It presents the findings of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project launched following a commitment in 2005 by the international community (after the G8 summit at Gleneagles, Scotland) to scale up financial support for infrastructure development in Africa. The lack of reliable information in this area made it difficult to evaluate the success of past interventions, prioritize current allocations, and provide benchmarks for measuring future progress, hence the need for the AICD. Africa s infrastructure sectors lag well behind those of the rest of the world, and the gap is widening. Some of the main policy-relevant findings highlighted in the book include the following: infrastructure in the region is exceptionally expensive, with tariffs being many times higher than those found elsewhere. Inadequate and expensive infrastructure is retarding growth by 2 percentage points each year. Solving the problem will cost over US$90 billion per year, which is more than twice what is being spent in Africa today. However, money alone is not the answer. Prudent policies, wise management, and sound maintenance can improve efficiency, thereby stretching the infrastructure dollar. There is the potential to recover an additional US$17 billion a year from within the existing infrastructure resource envelope simply by improving efficiency. For example, improved revenue collection and utility management could generate US$3.3 billion per year. Regional power trade could reduce annual costs by US$2 billion. And deregulating the trucking industry could reduce freight costs by one-half. So, raising more funds without also tackling inefficiencies would be like pouring water into a leaking bucket. Finally, the power sector and fragile states represent particular challenges. Even if every efficiency in every infrastructure sector could be captured, a substantial funding gap of $31 billion a year would remain. Nevertheless, the African people and economies cannot wait any longer. Now is the time to begin the transformation to sustainable development.

Download or read book Saga of African Underdevelopment written by Tetteh A. Kofi and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Renewing Development in Sub Saharan Africa written by Deryke Belshaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. They lay the foundation for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components are prioritized according to each country's constraints and opportunities. The emphasis of the book is on the identification of effective strategies that will enable individual countries to most effectively exploit their growth opportunities and to meet poverty-reducing and other key equity objectives.

Download or read book The Question of Underdevelopment in Sub Saharan Africa written by Lema Gessese and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sub Saharan Africa written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3. Investing in people.

Download or read book From Conflict to Recovery in Africa written by Tony Addison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revitalizing private sectors. 4. Transforming states. Conclusions. For a list of contributions, go to the full-text area of this record.

Download or read book Economic Underdevelopment and Domestic Public Policy in Sub Saharan Africa written by Tracy Lee Ramsay Lightcap and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Exploration of Poverty and Underdevelopment in Sub Saharan Africa Through Critical Theory Critical Pedagogy and Post colonial Theory Perspectives written by Juldeh F. Tejan-Sie and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poverty and underdevelopment are the predominant signifiers attached to the nations that make up Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Indeed, popular understandings and scholarly discourses are replete with SSA being synonymous with corruption; failed states; foreign aid dependency; extensive suffering as depicted by the many brutal conflicts and wars, famine and infrastructural inadequacies - such as lack of access to education and healthcare services. The paradoxical reality is that SSA is one of the richest areas in the world in terms of its natural and human resources. Equally, however, existing bodies of literature as well as lay understandings relating to the root causes of and manifestations of poverty and underdevelopment are from varied but narrow perspectives. The purpose of this conceptual dissertation is to defend my argument that colonial and neocolonial structures and mechanisms are major contributory factors to the realities I identify above. In this way, poverty and underdevelopment in SSA are humanly constructed phenomena, and as such possibilities exist to address these conditions. I have distinguished education as an effective mechanism to enact social change in SSA, specifically within the framework of the African Union's (AU) Agenda 2063. Therefore, I offer alternative perspectives on the poverty and underdevelopment scenario in SSA; particularly by exploring their structures and mechanisms of colonialism and neocolonialism through critical theory, critical pedagogy and post-colonial theory. I also present an expanded vision of education organic to the realities of SSA that can develop critical awareness, to essentially create a new African citizen who can function as an effective change agent for ensuring sustainable development in SSA."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.

Download or read book The Urban Transition in Sub Saharan Africa written by Christine Kessides and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Re Inventing Africa s Development written by Jong-Dae Park and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development challenges are not due to a lack of resources but a lack of management, presenting an alternative to the traditional view that Africa's problems are caused by a lack of leadership. In exploring an approach based on mind-set and nation-building, rather than unity – which tends to promote individual or party interests rather than the broader country or national interests – the author suggests new solutions for SSA's economic growth, inspired by Korea's successful economic growth model much of which is focused on industrialisation. This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, NGOs and governmental bodies in economics, development and politics studying Africa's economic development, and Korea's economic growth model.

Download or read book Postconflict Economics in Sub Saharan Africa Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo written by Mr.Jean A. P. Clément and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is making significant strides on both the political and economic fronts to extricate itself from one of the bloodiest wars in African history. This remarkable turnaround offers other countries and the international community valuable lessons in preventing conflict and in coping with postconflict recovery. This book also provides a summary of the most recent research on conflict, an analysis of the causes of conflicts in Africa, and an outline of their key economic characteristics.

Download or read book Taxing Colonial Africa written by Leigh Gardner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxation was one of the most contentious aspects of British colonial rule in Africa, shaping relationships between Africans, colonial governments, and European settlers. This is the first detailed comparative study of both taxation and public spending in British colonies in Africa.