African Development in a Comparative Perspective
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Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780865438088
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Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780865438088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Goran Hyden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107030471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated in the field. Goran Hyden discusses how research on African politics relates to the study of politics in other regions and mainstream theories in comparative politics. He focuses on such key issues as why politics trumps economics, rule is personal, state is weak and policies are made with a communal rather than an individual lens. The book also discusses why in the light of these conditions agriculture is problematic, gender contested, ethnicity manipulated and relations with Western powers a matter of defiance.
Author: Andrew Coulson
Publisher: Eastern Africa
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781847011978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An up-to-date, comparative, examination of the developing economy of Tanzania and its grass roots progress out of poverty, with pointers to its wider implications for policymakers, NGOS and practitioners. Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, Tanzania has experienced a period of painful adjustment followed by relatively rapid and stable economic growth. However the extent of progress on poverty reduction and the sustainability of the development process are both open to question. In this book, prominent international observers provide a range of different perspectives on the process of development over time and the issues facing a rapidly growing African economy: political economy; agriculture and rural livelihoods; industrial development; urbanisation; aid and trade; tourism; and the use of natural resources. Comparisons are drawn with other African economies as well as other developing countries, such as Vietnam. An invaluable deep review of Tanzania's economy and development, the book also looks at the wider implications of the research for the futureon the continent and beyond. David Potts is Honorary Visiting Researcher at the University of Bradford and was Head of the Bradford Centre for International Development 2015-16. He worked for six years as an economist in Tanzania's Ministry of Agriculture in the 1980s, has had many subsequent short-term assignments in the country and is co-editor of Development Planning and Poverty Reduction (2003).
Author: Emmanuel Akyeampong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-11
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 1107041155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.
Author: Crawford Young
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780300068795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy" that is unique in modern history. Crawford Young proposes a new conception of the state, weighing the different characteristics of earlier European empires (including those of Holland, Portugal, England, and Venice) and distilling their common qualities. He then presents a concise and wide-ranging history of colonization in Africa, from the era of construction through consolidation and decolonization. Young argues that several qualities combined to make the European colonial experience in Africa distinctive. The high number of nations competing for power around the continent and the necessity to achieve effective occupation swiftly yet make the colonies self-financing drove colonial powers toward policies of "ruthless extractive action." The persistent, virulent racism that established a distance between rulers and subjects was especially central to African colonial history. Young concludes by turning his sights to other regions of the once-colonized world, comparing the fates of former African colonies to their counterparts elsewhere. In tracing both the overarching traits and variations in African colonial states, he makes a strong case that colonialism has played a critical role in shaping the fate of this troubled continent.
Author: Mark Beissinger
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: 2002-01-24
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9781930365087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.
Author: Michael Bratton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-08-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521556125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Appendix: The Data Set.
Author: Jane L. Parpart
Publisher: Dalhousie African Studies
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays offers a comparative analysis of the position of women in North America, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and in India as well as in various African countries. Based on the belief that women's position in society is best understood in comparative terms, and that development strategies for women should be informed by an international feminist perspective, the authors are particularly concerned with placing issues of gender, race and ethnicity in a comparative perspective and with considering the similarities and differences between women in various parts of the world. Co-published with Dalhousie University Press.