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Understanding poverty in Africa? : A navigation through disputed concepts, data and terrains

Upphovsperson: Hårsmar, Mats
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration | Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 2010
Ämnesord: Economic conditions, poverty, Agricultural development, Poverty alleviation, Development research, Development theory, case studies, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Africa South of Sahara, Business and economics, Ekonomi
In any international comparison, sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the most pervasive poverty. The study of African societies requires the study of numerous dynamics, processes and situations with links to poverty issues. Recent methodological innovations hold that research into poverty should be multidimensional, dynamic and cross-disciplinary. But how can such research be undertaken? This volume comprises two separate articles. The first provides an overview of major conceptual positions on poverty. With the focus on theoretical and methodological issues, it argues that the epistemological and normative elements have not been sufficiently emphasised in the attempts to bring different disciplinary approaches together. Such elements constitute fundamental dividing lines in the poverty debate. However, the article goes on to argue that the capability approach has promising potential for bridging these divides.The second article is an empirical study of recent poverty developments in Tanzania and Burkina Faso. Common to both countries – one in East and the other in West Africa – is that a largely subsistence agricultural sector dominates their economies. The article combines quantitative and qualitative methods to show that regional differences in the structures of agricultural production may in large part explain variations in poverty.

Social change and economic reform in Africa

Medarbetare: Gibbon, Peter
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1993
Ämnesord: Tanzania, Kenya, East Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa, Non-governmental organizations, Economic policy, Economic reform, Agriculture, Labour, Health, Political participation, Informal sector, Social change, Structural adjustment, Economic conditions, Business and economics, Ekonomi
The African-based authors of this volume provide a series of objective, detailed, factually up-to-date, and theoretically informed studies of reent developments in agriculture, the informal sector, the social sector and 'civil society' in Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. They analyse the main trends and forces operating in these fields and consider the economic reform programme's impact against this background.

Structural adjustment and socio-economic change in Sub-Saharan Africa : some conceptual, methodological and research issues

Upphovspersoner: Gibbon, Peter | Olukoshi, Adebayo O.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1996
Ämnesord: Tanzania, Kenya, East Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Africa, Non-governmental organizations, Economic policy, Economic reform, Agriculture, Labour, Health, Political participation, Informal sector, Social change, Structural adjustment, Economic conditions, Business and economics, Ekonomi
The African-based authors of this volume provide a series of objective, detailed, factually up-to-date, and theoretically informed studies of reent developments in agriculture, the informal sector, the social sector and 'civil society' in Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. They analyse the main trends and forces operating in these fields and consider the economic reform programme's impact against this background.

Förvaltning, ledarskap och institutionsutveckling - på Afrikas villkor : en antologi

Medarbetare: Wohlgemuth, Lennart | Carlsson, Jerker
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1996
Ämnesord: Africa, Leadership, Institution building, Public administration, Private enterprises, Management, Capacity building, Business and economics, Ekonomi
Här diskuteras afrikanska organisationer och institutioner och den betydelse dessa har för den ekonomiska utvecklingen. De olika bidragen i boken förenas kring två teman: den afrikanska organisationens styrka och särprägel är det ena, medan det andra behandlar erfarenheter av arbete med afrikanska organisationer i förändring. Författarna beskriver det komplicerade och tålamodskrävande arbetet som krävs för att utveckla institutioner, men understryker också de stora möjligheter som öppnar sig om det sker på mottagarens villkor.

The IMF and the World Bank in Africa : conditionality, impact and alternatives

Medarbetare: Havnevik, Kjell
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1987
Ämnesord: Nigeria, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Case studies, Development policy, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Business and economics, Ekonomi
Most Sub-Saharan African countries have, during the 1980s, implemented a program of structural adjustment in conjunction with the IMF and the World Bank. These international institutions have thus had a decisive role in the formulation of economic policies in these countries. In early 1987, a conference on the "IMF and the World Bank in Africa" was arranged by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies in Uppsala. In the conference the character of the conditionality requirements attached to these programs were investigated by a group of international experts and their impacts were analysed on a macro-level and through specific studies of Nigeria, the Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, the Ivory Coast and India for comparative purposes. The conference also aimed at suggesting alternative and improved conditionality in the African context.

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