Africa's Development in the Twenty-first Century: Pertinent Socio-economic and Development IssuesKwadwo Konadu-Agyemang, Martin Kwamina Panford Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 409 pages The issues covered in this volume include the theoretical underpinnings of Africa's development crisis, food production, environmental degradation, conflict between timber & diamonds, land distribution, implications of ignoring traditional values, gender disparities in education, the African Union and urbanization. |
Table des matières
Theoretical Discussions and Consideration | 11 |
A New Conceptualization | 27 |
Africa and the Dialectics of Globalization | 49 |
Regional Groupings Political and Economic Unions | 69 |
Food Land Matters Natural Resources and Management | 109 |
The Political Ecology of Land Degradation in Ethiopia | 139 |
EconomicPolitical Convenience and Unprecedented Deforestation | 161 |
A Tragedy | 183 |
South Africas Successful Constitutional Transformation meets | 249 |
Transportation as a Factor in the Socioeconomic Development | 281 |
Some Socioeconomic | 301 |
The Case of | 323 |
Currency Devaluation and Poverty in Mauritania | 343 |
Africas Opportunities and Challenges | 357 |
Africas Participation in the Revolution in Information | 375 |
Reinventing Africa for the 21st Century | 391 |
Developmental Issues | 217 |
The Military and Nigerian Political Economy in the Global System | 235 |
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21st century Accra adjustment administration African countries African Union agricultural apartheid areas capital chapter climate forecasts colonial conflicts Constitution continent corruption Côte d'Ivoire cultural debt democratic developing countries diamond economic development ECOWAS elites environment environmental Ethiopia export external factors farm farmers forest Fund gender Ghana Ghanaian global groups growth human implementation important increase indigenous industry infrastructure institutions interests investment issues Kenya land degradation land reform language major Mauritania ment military million NEPAD networks Nigeria NORRIP official organization Panford percent political economy poor population poverty problems production projects regime region roads role rule-of-law rural sector Sierra Leone social contract society South Africa Sub-Saharan Africa timber tion trade traditional leaders transport University urban Volkstaat West Africa World Bank Zambia Zimbabwe Δ Δ Δ