This text analyzes critical political, social and economic problems in sub Saharan Africa and proposes strategies and policies for revival and progress. The major themes discussed are civil wars, political instability and repression, economic crisis, unemployment, poverty, urbanization, social development, environmental degradation, regional co-operation and globalization. The book puts forward policy approaches for reconstruction of war-torn societies, strengthening of democratic institutions and processes, health improvements, promotion of economic growth and employment, environmental regeneration, and integration of African economies at regional and global levels.
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Verlagsort
Basingstoke
Großbritannien
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Maße
Höhe: 242 mm
Breite: 162 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-333-73412-4 (9780333734124)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
DHARAM GHAI was educated at Oxford and Yale and was previously Director of Research at the ILO's World Employment Programme, head of the secretariat for the World Employment Conference of 1976 and Director of the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi. He is the author of many books and articles on a wide range of development problems such as employment, poverty, agrarian reform, social impact of the environment, social policy and globalization.
Preface - Frontispiece - Acknowledgements - African Development in Retrospect and Prospect; D.Ghai - PART I: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL PROGRESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY - Health Status and Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-term Perspective; G.A.Cornia & G.Mwabu - Urbanization, Unemployment, and Migration in Africa: Theory and Policy; M.P.Todaro - Poverty, Employment and the Informal Sector: Some Reflections on the ILO Mission to Kenya; H.W.Singer & R.Jolly - Civil Wars in Sub-Saharan Africa: Counting the Economic and Social Cost; F.Stewart - Social Dynamics of Environmental Change in Africa; D.Ghai - Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa; M.Strong - PART II: AGENDA FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REFORM - Democratization, Equity and Stability: African Politics and Societies in the 1990s; Y.Bangura - Africa in an Interdependent World: A Partnership of Vision and Principle; D.Wai - Structuring Economic Reform in Africa; E.O.Edwards & W.Kinyua - Roads to Regionalism: Survival, Security and Efficiency; R.H.Green - Africa in the Global Economy; G.K.Helleiner - Annex: Philip Ndegwa: A Biographical Profile - Index
