Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy, Performance and Prospects

by Belshaw,Deryke; Belshaw,Deryke

• ISBN13: 9780415252171
• ISBN10: 0415252172
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. The 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 constrains and opportunities.

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	ix
List of contributors	xii
Ian Livingstone - a tribute	xiv
Preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xvii
PART I Reviewing development in sub-Saharan Africa	1	(36)
Development in sub-Saharan Africa: progress and problems	3	(34)
PART II Conflict and power	37	(62)
Conflict prevention and conflict resolution: interventions and results	39	(16)
Oliver Furley
The economics and political economy of conflict in sub-Saharan Africa	55	(26)
Christopher Cramer
Planning for post-conflict rehabilitation	81	(18)
Reginald Herbold Green
PART III Agriculture and the rural sector	99	(162)
Smallholder farming in Africa: stasis and dynamics	101	(20)
Steve Wiggins
The intensification of small-scale livestock enterprises: progress and prospects	121	(14)
Martin Upton
Development and change in Sahelian dryland agriculture	135	(18)
Michael Mortimore
Paying for agricultural research and extension	153	(13)
Stephen Akroyd
Alex Duncan
New institutional economics, agricultural parastatals and marketing policy	166	(10)
Jonathan Kydd
Andrew Dorward
Colin Poulton
Agricultural marketing in Africa since Berg and Bates: results of liberalisation	176	(15)
Paul Mosley
The dimensions of food aid in sub-Saharan Africa: policy lessons	191	(24)
John Shaw
Rural poverty reduction in Africa: strategic options in rural development	215	(15)
Deryke Belshaw
The role of non-governmental organisations in African development: critical issues	230	(18)
Tina Wallace
Prospects for rural labour force absorption through rural industry	248	(13)
Ian Livingstone
PART IV Industry and the urban sector	261	(76)
An overview of manufacturing development in sub-Saharan Africa	263	(22)
Michael Tribe
Could import protection drive manufacturing exports in Africa?	285	(12)
John Thoburn
Stimulating economic recovery through private sector development	297	(12)
T.W. Oshikoya
K. Mlambo
Economic growth, wellbeing and governance in Africa's urban sector	309	(19)
Carole Rakodi
Information needs for urban policy making in Africa	328	(9)
Anthony O'Connor
PART V International trade and transport constraints	337	(72)
Trade policy reforms in sub-Saharan Africa: implementation and outcomes in the 1990s	339	(15)
Oliver Morrissey
The non-recovery of agricultural tradables and its consequences for rural poverty	354	(18)
Peter Lawrence
Deryke Belshaw
Disadvantaged economies: Africa's landlocked countries	372	(17)
Ian Livingstone
Creating a sustainable regional framework for development: the Southern African Development Community	389	(20)
Carolyn Jenkins
Lynne Thomas
PART VI Gender, health and education	409	(46)
Gender and development: policy issues in the context of globalisation	411	(15)
Marjorie Mbilinyi
Health and sickness: towards health systems that meet the needs of the poor	426	(15)
Gerald Bloom
Henry Lucas
Rosalind Goodrich
Achieving schooling for all: is gender a constraint or an opportunity?	441	(14)
Christopher Colclough
PART VII Final observations	455	(10)
Final observations on strategy and policy reform	457	(8)
Index	465