Contents:
Part I: Introduction
1: Africa's Economic Problems
Part II: Conflict and Power
2: Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution: Interventions and Results; 3: The Economics and Political Economy of Conflict; 4: Planning for Post-conflict Rehabilitation
Part III: Agriculture and the Rural Sector
5: Small-holder Farming in Africa: Statis and Dynamics; 6: The Intensification of Small-scale Livestock Enterprises: Progress and Prospects; 7: Development and Change in Sahelian Dryland Agriculture; 8: Paying for Agricultural Research and Extension; 9: Policy Issues in Agricultural Marketing; 10: Agricultural Marketing in Africa since Berg and Bates: Results of Liberalisation; 11: The Dimensions of Food Aid and Lessons for Policy; 12: Rural Development: Past Experience and Future Directions; 13: Prospects for Rural Labour Force Absorption through Rural Industry; 14: Achieving Sustainable Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
Part IV: Industry and the Urban Sector
15: An Overview of Manufacturing Development; 16: Could Import Protection Drive Manufacturing Exports in Africa?; 17: Stimulating Economic Recovery through Private Sector Development; 18: Economic Growth, Welfare and Governance in Africa's Urban Sector; 19: Information Needs for Urban Policy-Making in Africa
Part V: International Trade and Transport Constraints
20: Implementation and Outcomes of African Trade Policy Reforms in the 1990s; 21: The Non-Recovery of Agricultural Tradables and its Consequences for Rural Poverty; 22: Disadvantaged Economies: Africa's Landlocked Countries
Part VI: Gender, Health and Education
23: Gender and Development: Policy Issues in the Context of Globalisation; 24: The Dimensions of Africa's Health Problems; 25: Achieving Primary Schooling for All: Gender as Constraint or Opportunity?
Part VII: Conclusion
26: Policy Conclusions and Research Needs

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