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Markets and States in Tropical Africa
Author | : Robert H. Bates,Robert Hinrichs Bates |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520042530 |
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Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. "Markets and States in Tropical Africa "analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern Africa and explores how governments have intervened and diverted resources from farmers to other sectors of society. A classic of the field since its publication in 1981, this edition includes a new preface by the author.
Markets and States in Tropical Africa
Author | : Robert H. Bates |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005-03-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0520931963 |
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Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. Markets and States in Tropical Africa analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern Africa and explores how governments have intervened and diverted resources from farmers to other sectors of society. A classic of the field since its publication in 1981, this edition includes a new preface by the author.
Markets and States in Tropical Africa
Author | : Robert H. Bates |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2014-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520282568 |
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Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s “growth tragedy,” Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic growth on the continent. In this edition, Bates provides a new preface and chapter that address the seeds of Africa’s recovery and discuss the significance of the continent’s success for the arguments of this classic work.
Lost Crops of Africa
Author | : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2006-10-27 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309164540 |
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This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.
Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa
Author | : Robert H. Bates |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1987-04-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520060148 |
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The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base-the advanced industrial democracies-to new territory; the literature on rural Africa. Such as extension challenges the power of this form of political economy. It also enriches it, for the central questions which motivate the contemporary study of political economy are often addressed with unique clarity in the scholarship on rural Africa.
Agricultural Commercialization Economic Development and Nutrition
Author | : Joachim Von Braun,Eileen T. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : International Food Policy Research Insitute |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Cash crops |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105009693388 |
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Subsistence production: a sign of market failure. Commercialization cannot be left to the market. Household effects of commercialization. Nutrition effects of commercialization. Policy action needed.
African Markets and the Utu Ubuntu Business Model
Author | : Kinyanjui, Mary Njeri |
Publsiher | : African Minds |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2019-03-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781928331780 |
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The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures. Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi’s markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics and planning in African cities.
An Economic History of Tropical Africa The pre colonial period
Author | : Zbigniew A. Konczacki,Janina M. Konczacki |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9780714629193 |
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These articles cover: early agricultural development; history of agricultural crops; patterns of land use and tenure; introduction and use of metals; economic and technological aspects of the Iron Age; patterns of trade; trade routes and centres; and media of exchange.