Development economics and emerging economies

African agriculture faces major challenges with growing population pressure and the impact of climate change.

In the nineteen 60s and 70s, the University of Dar es salaam was recognised internationally as a great academic institution, and the site of anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, socialist studies and activism.

This study examines, traces and maps the poverty reduction policies adopted by six countries in Eastern and Southern Africa since the mid-1990s with a view to highlighting differences and similarities.

This book brings together articles and conference papers on the Zambezi River and Kariba Dam written by Dr.

This publication addresses the extent to which social work curricula in Kenya prepares graduates to handle issues of poverty and social development, the specific knowledge and skills that they are equipped with an existing gaps therein.

This volume contains framework papers prepared for a collaborative research project on Reproductive Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa, an initiative of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).

For the almost 40 years of its existence, ANPOCS has contributed to introducing or consolidating new thematic areas in the academic agenda of debates in the Brazilian social sciences.

Building on Fossungu,s earlier works, and essentially providing Africa with original, critical, and multi-level analyses of the trio of globalization, democracy, and national determination, this book theorizes that African states have to unite in order to have any impact in the global economy.

In spite of its surging popularity with scholars and environment conservation and management aid experts, scientific environmental epistemology does not seem to be the answer to the forestry and environmental problems that Africa is facing.

The emergent technoscientific New World Order is being legitimised through discourses on openness and inclusivity.

How come Africa is so underdeveloped when it is one of the richest continents on earth?

The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years.

One of the fundamental challenges in rethinking and remaking development in Africa from a Pan African perspective is that too much ,mere talk, and ,blame game, have played out at the expense of ,real action,.

Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development.

Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses.

Not so long ago, the Economist Newspaper described Africa as a hopeless continent.

International development has its origins in the histories of nineteenth and early twentieth-century European colonisation.

This book draws on years of rich empirical research on radio drama production in Cameroon to offer a strikingly new perspective in Development Theatre discourse in Africa.

In most African countries, banana production has been consigned to subsistence production.

Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa.

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The rural poor face a major challenge to access financial services provided by the formal banking system.

This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people.

This book is about transnational migration (familiarly called ,bushfalling,) and remittance flows to Cameroon.

The African conundrum.

Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years.

This book delves into the topical issue of the future of humanity and of being African in a world increasingly subjected to the power of technology and the dominance of a mercilessly self-absolved global elite.

Cameroon is rich in petroleum, minerals, tropical forests, wildlife, water systems, fertile lands, and much more.

This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana.

The subject of real estate is increasingly becoming important, especially in the countries of the developing world.

Comparing the Zimbabwean and Japanese agrarian experience may sound impossible.

From Plough to Entrepreneurship is motivated largely by the fact that Africans were deprived of economic and political autonomy by white government in South Africa.

Financing Africa,s development requires ingenuity, discipline, and an understanding of fiscal systems , the entirety of government revenues and expenditures, including taxation and debt.

La radicalisation est devenue un mot désignant notre monde en couleurs négatives.

Humanity has extensively exploited natural and physical resources, since the Industrial Revolution in Europe.

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Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular.

The global epistemological gendarmerie do not only police epistemologies but they also infect the world with infectious epidemics of laughter targeted at those people whose epistemologies are offhandedly condemned as sterile and useless in controlling and containing pandemics.

Cet ouvrage qui est consacr, , la femme, aborde l'une des probl,matiques d'actualit, lourde qu'est la paix et vise , d,montrer que les femmes sont des v,ritables arm,es au service de la paix et du d,veloppement.

As the world today faces messy problems, what in some circles has been called global weirding, the term resilience has taken centre stage.

It is now widely recognised that rising inequality of income and wealth on the one hand and a slowdown in the rate of economic growth on the other are two of the most important challenges faced today by the global economy as well as by most of the developing economies.

Recent work on rent and rentierism has offered a distinctive and fresh approach to understanding and explaining contemporary capitalism.

This book analyses the transition of South Asian nations from agrarian to industrialized economies, which is accompanied by a widening gap between agricultural and non-agricultural growth rates and a greater income disparity between farmers and urban residents.

Desde la conformación del Estado nacional a fines del siglo XIX hasta las noticias de ayer, la élite empresarial ha sido un actor central con un poder de veto determinante en la economía argentina.

El desempeño de la economía argentina es un enigma hasta para los más avezados analistas.

Digital transformation in organisations can improve business agility, operational efficiency, customer service, and contribute to sustainability initiatives.

Encontrar el camino al desarrollo es muy simple, lo más difícil es transitarlo.

Marcelo Paladino y Héctor Rocha son los dos autores que más han contribuido en la Argentina, y muy probablemente también en América Latina, a analizar y difundir la importante cuestión de la cooperación público-privada.

As Singapore progresses from a newly-independent nation to a more mature economy, the economic challenges it faces have evolved.

This book is about China's economy transformation.