This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Unevenness and inequalities form a central fact of African economic experiences. This book challenges conventional wisdoms about economic performance and possible policies for economic development in African countries, using the striking variation in economic performance as a starting point. African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy highlights not only difference between countries, but also variation within countries. It focuses on issues relating to gender, class, and ethnic identity, such as neo-natal mortality, school dropout, and horticultural and agribusiness exports. Variations in these areas point to opportunities for changing perfomance, reducing reducing inequalities, learning from other policy experiences, and escaping the ties of structure and the legacies of a colonial past. African Economic Development rejects teleological illusions and Eurocentric prejudice, criticizing a range of orthodox and heterodox economists for their cavalier attitude to evidence. Instead, it shows that seeing the contradictions of capitalism for what they are - fundamental and enduring - may help policy officials protect themselves against the misleading idea that development can be expected to be a smooth, linear process, or that it would be if certain impediments were removed. Drawing on decades of research and policy experience, this book combines careful use of available evidence from a range of African countries with economic insights to make the policy case for specific types of public sector investment.

African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy

Business & Money

Cramer, Christopher

Sender, John

Oqubay, Arkebe

Economics

Oxford University Press

Poverty, Class And Gender In Rural Africa

With the achievement of independence for the states of Africa came the necessity of internal development. The interpretation of subsequent poor economic performance is too often polarized between a dogged defence of socialist intervention and an equally dogmatic prescription of the role of the state. This book aims to expose the inadequacy of such polarity with a detailed empirical identification of a century of African change. Focusing on a case study of Tanzania, the book describes the emergence of capitalist development and the rapid growth of an African working class. Sender and Smith argue that class formation can only be understood through gender relations - the crucial elements in the formation of a rural proletariat and significant in distinguishing between capitalist and non-capitalist accumulation strategies. Placing the internal issues of trade union rights, wages and working conditions firmly on the African political agenda, the evidence of this vigorous study is difficult to ignore.

Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: A Tanzanian Case Study

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Focussing on a Fieldwork study of the West Usambaras in Tanzania, this study, first published in 1990, deals with processes of class formation and capitalist accumulation, and the dynamics of rural poverty and gender relations. Arguing that rural differentiation is systematically reinforced by the socialist state, the authors offer a critique of government intervention and discuss alternative, more effective forms of policy.

Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: A Tanzanian Case Study (Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set L- Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 7)

Smith, Sheila

Reference

The Development of Capitalism in Africa

First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa’s past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards. In marked contrast to the dependency approach, they propose that the important political and economic differences between the experiences of developing countries should be stressed and analysed. The argument is supported by a detailed look at the emergence since 1900 of capitalist social relations of production in nine different countries.

Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa

Develop Capitalism Africa

After independence a decisive shift occurred in the possibilities for the African states to intervene to promote development. The book argues that poor economic performance can be blamed on the absence of a coherent analytical basis.

Routledge& Kegan Paul

177p yellow paperback, this copy from a Cambridge college library with usual markings, only light use, main body of text is clean throughout

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African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy

Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: A Tanzanian Case Study

Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: A Tanzanian Case Study (Routledge Library Editions: Development Mini-Set L- Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 7)

The Development of Capitalism in Africa

Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa

The Development of Capitalism in Africa

The Development of Capitalism in Africa

Develop Capitalism Africa