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Main Author: Langdon, Steven (Author)
Other Authors: Ritter, Archibald R. M. (Joint Author.), Samy, Yiagadeesen (Joint Author.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, c2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Africa in changing perspective
  • Section A: Analysing the African experience
  • Dimensions of development : geography, ecology, history
  • Concepts of African economic development : growth, structural change, poverty and gender
  • Development theories, political economy and governance
  • Economic institutions and planning for development
  • Section B: Human resources in Africa
  • Demography
  • Income distribution and human needs
  • Human development : education and health
  • Labour and livelihoods, formal and informal
  • Urbanization, migration and regional change
  • Section C: Sustaining African economic development
  • Environment and climate change
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Natural resources and African development
  • The industrial sector
  • Infrastructure, communications, services and tourism
  • Macroeconomic management, debt and structural adjustment plans
  • Section D: Africa and the international economy
  • Trade and economic development
  • Multinational corporations and foreign direct investment
  • Development assistance : the African record
  • The changing role of China in Africa
  • International migration.