Format:
1 online resource (614 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781317427315
,
9781317427292
Series Statement:
Routledge Textbooks in Development Economics
Content:
Introduction: Africa in changing perspective -- Part A. Analyzing the African experience. Dimensions of development: geography, ecology, history -- Concepts of African economic development: growth, structural change, poverty and gender -- Development theories, political economy and governance -- Economic institutions and planning for development -- Part B. Human resources in Africa. Demography -- Income distribution and human needs -- Human development: education and health -- Labour and livelihoods, formal and informal -- Urbanization, migration and regional change -- Part C. Sustaining African economic development. Environment and climate change -- Agriculture and rural development -- Natural resources and African development -- The industrial sector -- Infrastructure, communications, services and tourism -- Macroeconomic management, debt and structural adjustment plans. Part D. Africa and the international economy -- Trade and economic development -- Multinational corporations and foreign direct investment -- Development assistance: the African record -- The changing role of China in Africa -- International migration.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138915008
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138915015
Additional Edition:
Langdon, Steven, 1946 - African economic development London : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9781315690506
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138915015
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138915008
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
Afrika
;
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
;
Strukturwandel
;
Armut
;
Bildung
;
Soziale Situation
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
DOI:
10.4324/9781315690506
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