Renewing Social and Economic Progress in Africa

2000. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-333-77911-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

With contributions by eminent specialists, this book analyses critical political, social and economic problems in Subsaharan Africa and proposes strategies and policies for revival and progress. The major themes discussed are civil wars, political instability and repression, economic crisis, unemployment, poverty, urbanization, social development, environmental degradation, regional co-operation and globalization. The book puts forward policy approaches for reconstruction of war-torn societies, strengthening of democratic institutions and processes, health improvements, promotion of economic growth and employment, environmental regeneration, and integration of African economies at regional and global levels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghai, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Frontispiece Acknowledgements African Development in Retrospect and Prospect; D.Ghai PART I: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL PROGRESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Health Status and Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective; G.A.Cornia & G.Mwabu Urbanization, Unemployment, and Migration in Africa: Theory and Policy; M.P.Todaro Poverty, Employment and the Informal Sector: Some Reflections on the ILO Mission to Kenya; H.W.Singer & R.Jolly Civil Wars in Sub-Saharan Africa: Counting the Economic and Social Cost; F.Stewart Social Dynamics of Environmental Change in Africa; D.Ghai Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa; M.Strong PART II: AGENDA FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REFORM Democratization, Equity and Stability: African Politics and Societies in the 1990s; Y.Bangura Africa in an Interdependent World: A Partnership of Vision and Principle; D.Wai Structuring Economic Reform in Africa; E.O.Edwards & W.Kinyua Roads to Regionalism: Survival, Security and Efficiency; R.H.Green Africa in the Global Economy; G.K.Helleiner Annex: Philip Ndegwa: A Biographical Profile Index

Über Autor(innen)

YUSEF BANGURA Project Coordinator, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development GIOVANNI ANDREA CORNIA Director, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER) ED EDWARDS recently Senior Policy Research Consultant, Africa Office of the International Center for Economic Growth REG GREEN Institute of Development Studies, Sussex GERALD K. HELLEINER Professor of Economics, University of Toronto RICHARD JOLLY Editor-in-Chief of Human Development Report, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) WILSON K. KINYUA General Manager, African Mercantile Banking Company Ltd. GERMANO MWABU Associate Professor of Economics, Kenyatta University SIR HANS SINGER Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex and Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies FRANCES STEWART Director, International Development Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford MAURICE F. STRONG Executive Coordinator for United Nations Reform MICHAEL P. TODARO Professor of Economics, New York University DUNSTAN M.WAI Acting Sector Manager of the Capacity Building Technical Group in the African Region at the World Bank.