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Both authoritative and accessible, African Development introduces
the issues, actors, and institutions at play in development
trajectories across sub-Saharan Africa. This new edition,
thoroughly updated, includes an entirely new chapter devoted to key
demographic trends in the region, especially rapid urbanization and
the distinct “youth bulge.” There is also a review of
major democratic gains and disappointments since 2011; analysis of
renewed internal armed conflicts; and attention to the contemporary
sovereign debt crisis relative to the structural adjustment debt of
earlier decades. The book uniquely brings to life the collective
impact of history, economics, and politics on development in the
region.
The much heralded growth and transformation of many economies in
sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade continues to receive
prominent attention in academic scholarship and among policy
practitioners. An apparent feature about this transformation,
however, is that Africa's youth appear to have been left out. This
book critically examines the extent and consequences of the
marginalization of African youth. It questions conventional wisdoms
about data trends, aspirational goals, and common policy
interventions surrounding Africa's youth that have been variously
propagated in both the development studies literature and in
mainstream donor policy reports. The book explores macro trends
from both a temporal and cross-regional perspective in order to
highlight what is distinct about contemporary African youth and
whether their prospects and behaviours do actually vary from their
counterparts in other regions of the world or from previous
generations of African youth. Such studies include cross-country
analyses of youth employment patterns and modes of political
participation, in-depth examination of the behaviours and
aspirations of the urban youth, and critical reflections on the
impact of rural employment initiatives, vocational education, and
learnership programmes. The incorporation of multiple methods and
disciplines, as well as its attention to policy issues, ensures
that the book will be of great interest to graduate students,
researchers, and professional researchers whose work lies at the
intersection of African area studies and development studies as
well as those focused on development economics, political science,
and public policy and administration.
The much heralded growth and transformation of many economies in
sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade continues to receive
prominent attention in academic scholarship and among policy
practitioners. An apparent feature about this transformation,
however, is that Africa's youth appear to have been left out. This
book critically examines the extent and consequences of the
marginalization of African youth. It questions conventional wisdoms
about data trends, aspirational goals, and common policy
interventions surrounding Africa's youth that have been variously
propagated in both the development studies literature and in
mainstream donor policy reports. The book explores macro trends
from both a temporal and cross-regional perspective in order to
highlight what is distinct about contemporary African youth and
whether their prospects and behaviours do actually vary from their
counterparts in other regions of the world or from previous
generations of African youth. Such studies include cross-country
analyses of youth employment patterns and modes of political
participation, in-depth examination of the behaviours and
aspirations of the urban youth, and critical reflections on the
impact of rural employment initiatives, vocational education, and
learnership programmes. The incorporation of multiple methods and
disciplines, as well as its attention to policy issues, ensures
that the book will be of great interest to graduate students,
researchers, and professional researchers whose work lies at the
intersection of African area studies and development studies as
well as those focused on development economics, political science,
and public policy and administration.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. Many African countries have
experienced unprecedented rates of economic growth in recent years,
yet their economic transformations display features that could
constrain their future growth prospects. Patterns of urbanization
without industrialization, rapid growth of low productivity jobs in
the informal economy, and a neglected agricultural sector with
increased need for important foods are all areas for concern as
Africa continues to develop. Using Ghana as a case study, Ghana's
Economic and Agricultural Transformation: Past Performance and
Future Prospects integrates economic and political analysis to
explore the challenges and opportunities of Africa's
transformation. It examines Ghana's overall economic performance
since it went through a major Structural Adjustment Program in the
early 1980s, and provides an in-depth empirical analysis of the
broader economy and the agricultural sector over the last four
decades. It explains why Ghana has not transformed its economy more
substantially, why its agriculture sector has not played a greater
role beyond cocoa production, and what must be done in the future
to achieve a successful transformation. In addressing these puzzles
Ghana's Economic and Agricultural Transformation considers what the
rest of the world can learn from Ghana's experience.
When and why do the urban poor vote for opposition parties in
Africa's electoral democracies? The strategies used by political
parties to incorporate the urban poor into the political arena
provide a key answer to this question. This book explores and
defines the role of populism in Africa's urban centers and its
political outcomes. In particular, it examines how a populist
strategy offers greater differentiation from the multitude of
African parties that are defined solely by their leader's
personality, and greater policy congruence with those issues most
relevant to the lives of the urban poor. These arguments are
elaborated through a comparative analysis of Senegal and Zambia
based on surveys with informal sector workers and interviews with
slum dwellers and politicians. The book contributes significantly
to scholarship on opposition parties and elections in Africa, party
linkages, populism, and democratic consolidation.
How can a small university like Carnegie Mellon have such a big
impact on the world? Ironically, being small is a key reason the
university is so prolific. An intimate environment, coupled with an
extraordinary ratio of world-class thinkers, has produced a culture
of collaboration that may be unmatched elsewhere in higher
education.
How that culture emerged is now chronicled in a series of essays by
Carnegie Mellon faculty, including the late Nobel Prize-winner Herb
Simon, the "father of artificial intelligence." Find out what
caused Carnegie Mellon's meteoric rise from its trade school roots
to one of the finest research universities in the world in The
Innovative University, published by Carnegie Mellon University
Press.
When and why do the urban poor vote for opposition parties in
Africa's electoral democracies? The strategies used by political
parties to incorporate the urban poor into the political arena
provide a key answer to this question. This book explores and
defines the role of populism in Africa's urban centers and its
political outcomes. In particular, it examines how a populist
strategy offers greater differentiation from the multitude of
African parties that are defined solely by their leader's
personality, and greater policy congruence with those issues most
relevant to the lives of the urban poor. These arguments are
elaborated through a comparative analysis of Senegal and Zambia
based on surveys with informal sector workers and interviews with
slum dwellers and politicians. The book contributes significantly
to scholarship on opposition parties and elections in Africa, party
linkages, populism, and democratic consolidation.
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