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The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy
Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state. It has been central to competitiveness, catching up, and structural change in both advanced and developing countries. It has also been one of the most contested perspectives, reflecting ideologically inflected debates and shifts in prevailing ideas. There has lately been a renewed interest in industrial policy in academic circles and international policy dialogues, prompted by the weak outcomes of policies pursued by many developing countries under the direction of the Washington Consensus (and its descendants), the slow economic recovery of many advanced economie...
Elgar Encyclopedia of Corruption and Society
Delving into the phenomenology of corruption and its impacts on the governance of societies, this cutting edge Encyclopedia considers what makes corruption such a resilient, complex, and global priority for study. This title contains one or more Open Access entries.
THE DYNAMICS OF AFRICA (INDIGENUOS AFRICAN SYSTEMS)
African philosophy before the 20th century was primarily conducted and transmitted orally as ideas by philosophers whose names have been lost to history. While early African intellectual history primarily focused on folk lore, wise sayings and religious ideas, it also included philosophical concepts such as the Nguni Bantu concept of Ubuntu in moral philosophy. Ubuntu often summarized by the phrase “I am because we are”, emphasizes the inter connectedness of individuals within a community. It contrasts with western individualism by priotizing communal values and the well-being of the group over the individual and is reminiscent of the wider phenomenon of African communalism found across ...
The Suburban Frontier
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. The Suburban Frontier examines how self-built housing on the urban periphery has become central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Tanzania. Drawing on original research in the city of Dar es Salaam, Claire Mercer details how the “suburban frontier” has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped. As the first book-length analysis of Africa’s suburban middle class, The Suburban Frontier offers significant contributions to the study of urban social change in Africa and urbanization in the Global South.
Land Politics
This book provides new insight into the high-stakes struggle to control land in the Global South through the lens of land titling in Zambia and Senegal. Based on extensive fieldwork, it shows how chiefs and communities challenge the state, in an era of increasing scarcity and booming global land markets.
Africa Quarterly
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Beyond Parliament
In Beyond Parliament Horman Chitonge offers a unique combination of the conceptual dimensions with the practical examples of human rights discourse deployed as an instrument for social change in the global south. He uses the right to water and the right to food to illustrate that human rights are never given on a silver platter; giving effect to human rights is always an outcome of a continuous struggle to protect human dignity and value. To implement this view of human rights, the book argues, requires going beyond the parliamentary politics of recognising and acknowledging human rights in statutes and bill of rights to the radical democratic politics of giving effect to the recognised rights, especially among the poor and marginalised.
Economic Growth and Development in Africa
In recent years, Africa has undergone the longest period of sustained economic growth in the continent’s history, drawing the attention of the international media and academics alike. This book analyses the Africa Rising narrative from multidisciplinary perspectives, offering a critical assessment of the explanations given for the poor economic growth and development performance in Africa prior to the millennium and the dramatic shift towards the new Africa. Bringing in perspectives from African intellectuals and scholars, many of whom have previously been overlooked in this debate, the book examines the construction of Africa’s economic growth and development portraits over the years. I...
Industrialising Africa
Industrializing Africa examines the prospect of industrial development on the African continent from a radically different perspective. The book demonstrates that the elusive industrial development in Africa is a clear manifest of an incomplete decolonization of African economies. Through a detailed discussion of the current status of industrial development and the past industrialization strategies implemented on the continent, the book clearly shows that sustained industrial growth will remain elusive as long as African economies continue to operate under the colonial economic structure and logic, where African countries are structured to supply raw materials to industrial centres. If Africa is to have a chance to significantly grow its industrial sector, it has to de-centre the colonial economic logic by learning to build industrial capabilities, even in areas where countries on the continent currently do not have comparative advantage--Provided by publisher.
Annual Report
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