Research Catalog

Title

Africa's development challenges and the World Bank : hard questions, costly choices / edited by Stephen K. Commins.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner, 1988.

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Additional Authors

• Commins, Stephen K.
• World Bank.
• University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center.
• University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center. Development Institute.

Description

ix, 243 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Africa > Economic policy > Congresses
• Africa > Economic conditions > 1960- > Congresses

Note

• "Originated at a conference ('Africa's Development Challenge and the World Bank Response') held at UCLA in November 1986 ... co-sponsored and co-funded by the World Bank, UCLA's African Studies Center, and the Center's Development Institute"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Africa's development challenge / Stephen K. Commins -- What can be done in Africa? : the World Bank's response / Edward Jaycox -- Policy reforms for economic development in Tanzania / Nguyuru Lipumba -- Impact of the World Bank-supported Agricultural Development Project on Rural Women in Zambia / Monica Munachonga -- Issues of political economy in formulating donor policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Christiansen, Cheryl Christensen, and Beatrice Edwards -- The political basis for agricultural policy reform / Robert Bates -- Food aid and policy-based lending to Africa / Raymond Hopkins -- Political economy and policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa / Carol Lancaster -- Bureaucratic growth and economic stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa / David Abernethy -- Structural adjustment in the longer run / Charles Elliott.

ISBN

155587116X (alk. paper) :

LCCN

88014875

OCLC

• 17954214
• ocm17954214

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries