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Book SynopsisRenewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. They 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 constraints and opportunities. The emphasis of the book is on the identification of effective strategies that will enable individual countries to most effectively exploit their growth opportunities and to meet poverty-reducing and other key equity objectives.
Table of ContentsPart I: Africa's Economic Problems. Part II Conflict and Power: Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution - Interventions and Results; The Economics and Political Economy of Conflict; Planning for Post-conflict Rehabilitation. Part III Agriculture and the Rural Sector: Small-holder Farming in Africa - Statis and Dynamics; The Intensification of Small-scale Livestock Enterprises - Progress and Prospects; Development and Change in Sahelian Dryland Agriculture; Paying for Agricultural Research and Extension; Policy Issues in Agricultural Marketing; Prospects for Rural Labour Force Absorption through Rural Industry; Achieving Sustainable Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part IV Industry and the Urban Sector: An Overview of Manufacturing Development; Could Import Protection Drive Manufacturing Exports in Africa?; Stimulating Economic Recovery through Private Sector Development; Economic Growth, Welfare and Governance in Africa's Urban Sector; Information Needs for Urban Policy-Making in Africa. Part V International Trade and Transport Constraints: Implementation and Outcomes of African Trade Policy Reforms in the 1990s; The Non-Recovery of Agricultural Tradables and its Consequences for Rural Poverty; Disadvantaged Economies - Africa's Landlocked Countries. Part VI Gender, Health and Education: Gender and Development - Policy Issues in the Context of Globalization; The Dimensions of Africa's Health Problems; Achieving Primary Schooling for All - Gender as Constraint or Opportunity?. Part VII: Policy Conclusions and Research Needs.
