Africa's development challenges and the World Bank : hard questions, costly choices

Author(s)

• Commins, Stephen K.
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center
• University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center. Development Institute

Bibliographic Information

Africa's development challenges and the World Bank : hard questions, costly choices

edited by Stephen K. Commins

L. Rienner, 1988

Note

"Originated at a conference ('Africa's Development Challenge and the World Bank Response') held at UCLA in November 1986 ... co-sponsored and co-funded by the World Bank, UCLA's African Studies Center, and the Center's Development Institute"--Acknowledgements

Includes bibliographies and index

Contents of Works

• Africa's development challenge / Stephen K. Commins
• What can be done in Africa? : the World Bank's response / Edward Jaycox
• Policy reforms for economic development in Tanzania / Nguyuru Lipumba
• Impact of the World Bank-supported Agricultural Development Project on rural women in Zambia / Monica Munachonga
• Issues of political economy in formulating donor policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Christiansen, Cheryl Christensen, and Beatrice Edwards
• The political basis for agricultural policy reform / Robert Bates
• Food aid and policy-based lending to Africa / Raymond Hopkins
• Political economy and policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa / Carol Lancaster
• Bureaucratic growth and economic stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa / David Abernethy
• Structural adjustment in the longer run / Charles Elliott

Details

• NCID: BA0758391X
• ISBN:
  • 155587116X
• LCCN: 88014875
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boulder, Colo.
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 243 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HC800
  • DC19 : 338.96
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Africa -- Economic policy -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960- -- Congresses