Author: Peter E. CoughlinPublisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966467324
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Industrialization in Kenya
Author: Peter E. CoughlinPublisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966467324
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Foreign Economic Trends and Their Implications for the United States
Author: ECA Index
Author: Planning African Development
Author: Glen NorcliffePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136862110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
First published in 1981, this book concerns specifically the Kenyan experience with regards to development planning but, given that the problems of hunger poverty and underdevelopment manifest themselves in slightly different forms across all African countries, this book has considerable relevance to development planning across the African continent.The first set of essays in this collection address the question of development which is undoubtedly Africa’s highest development priority. The second grouping of essays considers issues in project planning and asks questions concerning cost, method, outcome and evaluation of various projects in Kenya
ECA Index
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for AfricaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Transforming Agrarian Economies
Author: Thomas P. TomichPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501717499
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
The world's 58 poorest countries are diverse in many respects, but they share the characteristic of a labor force overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture. Challenging the assumption that mass poverty and chronic hunger are insoluble problems, this book systematically explores the multiple aspects of economic development in these countries, which are home to 60 percent of the world's population. The authors offer a broad-based development strategy to raise incomes through agricultural productivity growth and expanded rural employment. They present rich new information on the rural informal sector and on agriculture-industry interactions, and they analyze the impact of macroeconomic and social policies on the rural economy. Policy instruments aimed at bringing about broad-based development are carefully assessed from fiscal policy to development of hew seeds and farm implements. The book includes detailed case studies of countries that have seized—or missed—development opportunities. Comparison of the successful economic transformations of Japan and the United States shows how key ideas, which the authors call strategic notions, have enabled policymakers to act with foresight. Analyses of strategic choices in China, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, Mexico, Kenya, and Tanzania also show how development strategies that emerge from the real-world political economy reflect a mix of individual interests and strategic notions.
Catalog of African Government Documents
Author: Boston University. LibrariesPublisher: Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Reference book comprising a catalogue of the collection of official publications emanating from countries in Africa and held by the boston university library.
The Right to Know
Author: Sandra ColiverPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812215885
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This book documents the massive deprivation of human rights resulting from governmental censorship, manipulation, and control of reproductive health and sexuality information. The introductory chapter applies a human rights perspective to reproductive health to show that women must have full and impartial information to be able to choose services which further their goals rather than governmental policies. Examples of different types of state manipulation are provided, and demographic, biomedical, and reproductive health paradigms of contraceptive delivery programs are described. Chapter 2 identifies the binding obligations imposed on governments by the international principle that women have a right to appropriate reproductive health information. The third chapter provides a global overview of such topics as health expenditures, fertility rates, infertility, literacy and education, infant and child mortality, maternal mortality, child spacing, contraceptive usage, unmet need, abortion, HIV/AIDS, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Chapters 4-13 present country reports for Algeria, Brazil, Chile, Ireland, Kenya, Malawi, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, and the US. The country reports reveal the overwhelming need of women to have access to this information and the innumerable ways in which governments control such access. The country reports also describe factors such as religion, culture, tradition, state of development, and influence of foreign donors which have an impact on access to information. Each country report ends with specific recommendations, and the concluding chapter defines seven obligations of national governments imposed by the right to information contained in international law and contains recommendations of ways nongovernmental organizations can use these obligations to lobby governments for improvements.
Development Planning in Mixed Economies
Author: Miguel UrrutiaPublisher: United Nations University Press
ISBN: 9789280806373
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Author: Ole Norgaard