Author: Abiodun Alao
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781580462679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.
Author: Heinrich Bofinger
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 0821386050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book will be of interest to governments in the region and to multilateral and bilateral aid and lending agencies, as well as to graduate students, faculty, and researchers in African studies and transport studies. --Book Jacket.
Author: Diery Seck
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-18
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 3319012827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents a number of key studies pertaining to the most pressing challenges of economic regional integration in West Africa. The issues of monetary coordination, foreign exchange volatility, taxation, savings and macroeconomic convergence are investigated from a regional perspective. The characteristics of West Africa’s trade policy are reviewed and assessed in comparison to that of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The extent to which regional integration can tackle the challenge of unemployment is the focus of studies on labour markets. Development of the private sector and coordination of regional cross-border transportation are examined through the lens of economic collaboration between Arab and African countries. The book provides fresh new answers to persistent development questions and sheds new light on long-held views that are either incomplete or no longer true. It also opens new perspectives on the search for sustainable avenues for Africa’s development. In this regard, it may contribute to the emergence of a new paradigm on Africa’s development process and its science-based, policy-oriented implementation.
Author: A. G. Hopkins
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 042968312X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This pioneering and celebrated work was the first, and remains the standard, account of the economic history of the huge area conventionally known as West Africa. The book ranges from prehistoric times to independence and covers the former French territories, as well as those colonised by the British. It criticises conventional beliefs about economic backwardness, offers an alternative account that explains the particular configuration of poverty that characterised the pre-colonial period, and assesses the consequences of the region’s interaction with the wider world – from the growth of the Saharan and Atlantic trades to the rise and demise of colonial rule. This edition contains a substantial new Introduction that discusses the development of the subject during the past 50 years, evaluates the debate over the original interpretation, and provides a valuable guide to additional reading, bringing the reader up to date with current scholarship on the subject, as well as providing avenues for further independent research. Appearing at a time when the study of African economic history is enjoying a revival and is engaging economists as well as historians, the book fills a large gap in African studies, provides newcomers with a stimulating point of entry into the subject, and contributes to our understanding of wider issues of global underdevelopment.
Author: Carl E. Beigie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 0429727747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The combined efforts of the World Peace Foundation, the G. D. Howe Research Institute, and the Centre Quebecois de Relations Internationales have culminated in a comprehensive three-volume study of critical U.S.-Canadian resource issues. Motivated initially by the tensions of the mid-1970s and by immediate U.S. concerns about the actions of its maj
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1465421181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A beautifully clear, detailed, and fully revised and updated guide, DK's Reference World Atlas gives a superb overview of all the world's regions. Providing a detailed reference map set, the atlas also features computer-generated terrain-modeled maps and the landscapes, bringing an all-new dimension to cartography. This ninth edition of DK's respected Reference World Atlas includes all recent border, place name, and flag changes from around the world, including the emerging state of South Sudan.
Author: J.M. Konczacki
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1136270566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These articles cover: early agricultural development; history of agricultural crops; patterns of land use and tenure; introduction and use of metals; economic and technological aspects of the Iron Age; patterns of trade; trade routes and centres; and media of exchange.
Author: Hany Besada
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1315514249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers and policy experts in the area of natural resource governance and management in Africa, this volume addresses the most critical policy issues affecting the continent’s ability to manage and govern its precious resources. The narrative of the book is solutions-driven, as experts weigh on specific issues within the context of Africa’s natural resource governance and offer appropriate policy recommendations on how to best manage the continent’s resources. This is a must-read for government policy makers in industrialized economies and, more importantly, in Africa and emerging economies, as well as for academic researchers working in the field, extractive companies operating on the continent, extractive industry and trade associations, and multilateral and donor aid institutions.
Author: Jessica Howell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0748692967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding imagery of miasma, sludge and rot across non-fictional and fictional travel narratives, speeches, private journals and medical advice tracts. Well-known authors such as Joseph Conrad are placed in dialogue with minority writers such as Mary Seacole and Africanus Horton in order to understand their different approaches to representing white illness abroad. The project also considers postcolonial texts such as Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock to demonstrate that authors continue to 'write back' to the legacy of colonialism by using images of illness from climate.