African Political EconomyM.E. Sharpe, 2001 Examines FDR and the New Deal era from the perspectives of social and cultural history, political science, popular culture, and political history. |
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Growth Unemployment and Poverty in Botswana | 16 |
Urbanization and Urban Management in Africa | 30 |
The Subterranean Economy in Developing Societies The Evidence from Africa | 57 |
The Socioeconomic Context of AIDS in Africa | 73 |
Bureaucratic Corruption in Africa Causes and Consequences | 88 |
Development Policy and the Poor Toward an Alternative Policy Framework for Africa | 105 |
Structural Adjustment Programmes as Policy Reform An Assessment of Their Objectives and Impact in the SADC Countries | 118 |
Managing Development Policy in Botswana Implementing Reforms for Rapid Change | 133 |
Controlling Bureaucratic Corruption in Africa | 147 |
Decentralization the New Public Administration and the Changing Role of the Public Sector in Africa | 160 |
The Challenge of Policy Reform and Change in Africa | 174 |
References | 195 |
Index | 221 |
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50 percent activities administrative African countries African governments agricultural basic Botswana 1991a bureaucratic corruption capacity capital civil service Consequently contribute corruption in Africa costs Côte d'Ivoire crisis in Africa debt decentralization decline devel developing countries development management development policy economic crisis effective employment example expenditure exports factors formal economy Gaborone Ghana government of Botswana growth rates households impact implementation improve income increase inflation institutions investment Kenya labor large numbers Lesotho levels major Malawi ment migration million Moreover Mozambique Nigeria nomic participation policy reform political poor poverty problems productivity programs promotion public officials public sector public service rapid urbanization ratio reduce reform and change region Republic of Botswana result revenues role ROSCAS rural areas SADC SAPS social socioeconomic South Africa structural adjustment sub-Saharan Africa subterranean economy subterranean sector Tanzania tion UNDP urban areas urbanization in Africa World Bank 1993a Zambia Zimbabwe
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الصفحة 162 - However, it is the most common form of decentralization employed in the agriculture services, primary education, preventive health, and population subsectors (Silverman 1992). In Botswana, for example, the central government has created and supervises district councils as well as a national Rural Development Council for the coordination and implementation of, among other things, rural development activities such as drought relief measures and agricultural development.
الصفحة 187 - Technological decisions and the pace of technical change affect all development processes and, in turn, are affected by them.
الصفحة 156 - Governor; (d) examine the practices and procedures of Government departments and public bodies in order to facilitate the discovery of corrupt practices and to secure the revision of methods of work or procedures which, in the opinion of the Commissioner...
الصفحة 52 - Such participation requires that these people not only share in the distribution of the benefits of development, be they the material benefits of increased output or other benefits considered enhancing to the quality of life, but that they share also in the task of creating these benefits. For participation of the rural poor to be "willing...
الصفحة 53 - If the people are to be able to develop they must have power. They must be able to control their own activities within the framework of their village communities. And they must be able to mount effective pressure nationally also. The people must participate not just in the physical labour involved in economic development but also in the planning of it and the determination of priorities. At present the best intentioned governments...
الصفحة 205 - Orphans as a window on the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: initial results and implications of a study in Uganda.
الصفحة 83 - ... hospitals will occupy places thereby denied to others, many with conditions that would otherwise have been curable. They will require long hospital stays, expensive drugs, and the time of skilled staff. In some central African capitals, more than 50 percent of admissions to hospitals are now AIDS cases. The direct costs of treatment have also been estimated to be quite high, ranging from 78 to 932 percent of per capita GNP in...