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Towards a New Map of Africa.
'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich? or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.'Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Director, Africa '05'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It show...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Towards a New Map of Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of Boxes, Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Need for a Replacement for Africa in Crisis; Homogenizing Complexity; Twenty Years on from Africa in Crisis; What's Happened to the Crisis since Africa in Crisis was Published?; Arguments Old and New; Signs of Success; Running Out of Time?; How Can Our Book Contribute?; Part I: Human Ecology; 1 Land-based Livelihoods; Introduction; What are Rural Livelihoods?; Unfolding Livelihoods in West Africa; Two Cases.
- Conclusion2 Fishing Livelihoods: Successful Diversification, or Sinking into Poverty?; Introduction; Diverse People and Livelihoods; Fisheries as a Growing Livelihood Opportunity; The Attraction of the Fisheries Sector; Effects on Livelihood Security and Sustainability; Coping Strategies at Micro and Macro Levels; Conclusions; 3 Urban Livelihoods; Introduction; Framing Urban Livelihoods; Making a Living; Maintaining Social Networks and Urban Communities; Mounting Collective Action; Conclusions; 4 The Challenge of HIV/AIDS; Introduction; HIV/AIDS and its Potentially Devastating Impacts.
- Positive AnomaliesAvoiding the Trap; Conclusion; 5 Food Security; Introduction; Food Security: The Definitional Quandry; Vulnerability Discourse, Monitoring Practice and Food Aid; Description of Famine Early Warning Systems in Africa; Critical Assessment of Early Warning Systems in Africa; Recommendations for Best Practice; Part II: Institutional Change; 6 The Global Economic Context; Introduction; The Promise of Globalization and Achievements; The Failed Promise of Growth; Explaining the Poor Performance: Has Africa Adjusted?; Africa Maladjusted: The Low-growth Path; Concluding Remarks.
- 7 Legal FrameworksIntroduction; The Roots of African Poverty and Vulnerability; Can African Governments Use Law to Restructure Dysfunctional Institutions?; How Africans Designed Laws; Legislative Theory and the Use of Law for Institutional Transformation; Gathering the Facts; Summary and Conclusion; 8 The Politics of Decentralization; Introduction; Fetters on Decentralization; Means of Resistance: Powers Transfer and Institutional Choice; Conclusions; 9 National Institutions for Development: The Case of Botswana; Introduction; Theorizing the Botswana State.
- Elite Unity, Underdevelopment and State AutonomyConscious Leadership and Class Unity: The Foundation of State Capacity; Conclusion; 10 Identity and National Governance; The Colonial State and Legally Inscribed Identities; Post-colonial Dilemmas; Political Identity: A Methodological Consideration; Democracy and Institutions: A Conclusion; 11 Regional Economic and Political Institutions; Introduction; The Southern African Development Community (SADC): A Historical Overview; Regional Transformations in the 1990s: Implications for SADC; Conclusion.