Development Planning in an African Economy
Author | : Satish C. Mehta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Satish C. Mehta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeremiah I. Dibua |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351152904 |
In this book, Jeremiah I. Dibua challenges prevailing notions of Africa's development crisis by drawing attention to the role of modernization as a way of understanding the nature and dynamics of the crisis, and how to overcome the problem of underdevelopment. He specifically focuses on Nigeria and its development trajectory since it exemplifies the crisis of underdevelopment in the continent. He explores various theoretical and empirical issues involved in understanding the crisis, including state, class, gender and culture, often neglected in analysis, from an interdisciplinary, radical political economy perspective. This is the first book to adopt such an approach and to develop a new framework for analyzing Nigeria's and Africa's development crisis. It will influence the debate on the development dilemma of African and Third World societies and will be of interest to scholars and students of race and ethnicity, modern African history, class analysis, gender studies, and development studies.
Author | : Satish C. Mehta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498529259 |
In this insightful book, development historian Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina addresses the crisis of development in Africa by locating it in its colonial historical past. Using Nigeria as a case study, he argues that the nature and practice of British colonialism in this colony created social and economic deficiencies that have left a legacy of underdevelopment. Ukelina outlines the processes that led to the 1945 Nigerian Development Plan and the evolution of colonial agricultural policy and practices in Nigeria. He argues that a few key factors led to the failure of development in the late colonial period: the imperial and neocolonial imperative to exploit African resources and people, poor planning as a result of this imperative, and the racial ideologies of the colonial state that resulted in a total rejection of local African experience and knowledge in favor of Western ‘experts.’ The Second Colonial Occupation uncovers and analyzes the short and long term impact of colonialism. It reveals that though colonial rule was promoted as a benevolent mission, at heart, it was a system that guaranteed that Africans continuously paid for their own exploitation. Ukelina argues that ‘postcolonial’ Africa will continue to face development challenges unless it breaks free from the intellectual relics of colonial rule and the economic shackles of neocolonialism.
Author | : Ojetunji Aboyade |
Publisher | : New York : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Investments |
ISBN | : |
Nigeria. Investment and its influence on economic growth. National level economic planning, the conflict of centralization versus decentralization, and social change. References. Bibliography pp. 291 to 366.
Author | : Christopher Cramer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0198832338 |
"This book challenges conventional wisdoms about economic performance and possible policies for economic development in African countries. Its starting point is the striking variation in African economic performance. Unevenness and inequalities form a central fact of African economic experiences. The authors highlight not only differences between countries, but also variations within countries, differences often organized around distinctions of gender, class, and ethnic identity. For example, neo-natal mortality and school dropout have been reduced, particularly for some classes of women in some areas of Africa. Horticultural and agribusiness exports have grown far more rapidly in some countries than in others. These variations (and many others) point to opportunities for changing performance, reducing inequalities, learning from other policy experiences, and escaping the ties of structure, and the legacies of a colonial past. The book rejects teleological illusions and Eurocentric prejudice, but it does pay close attention to the results of policy in more industrialized parts of the world. 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 were certain impediments suddenly removed. The authors criticize a wide range of orthodox and heterodox economists, especially for their cavalier attitude to evidence. Drawing on their own decades of research and policy experience, they combine careful use of available evidence from a range of African countries with political economy insights (mainly derived from Kalecki, Kaldor and Hischman) to make the policy case for specific types of public sector investment"--
Author | : Martin S. Shanguhyia |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000713938 |
Development in Modern Africa: Past and Present Perspectives contributes to our understanding of Africa’s experiences with the development process. It does so by adopting a historical and contemporary analysis of this experience. The book is set within the context of critiques on development in Africa that have yielded two general categories of analysis: skepticism and pessimism. While not overlooking the shortcomings of development, the themes in the book express an optimistic view of Africa’s development experiences, highlighting elements that can be tapped into to enhance the condition of African populations and their states. By using case studies from precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial Africa, contributors to the volume demonstrate that human instincts to improve material, social and spiritual words are universal. They are not limited to the Western world, which the term and process of development are typically associated with. Before and after contact with the West, Africans have actively created institutions and values that they have actively employed to improve individual and community lives. This innovative spirit has motivated Africans to integrate or experiment with new values and structures, challenges, and solutions to human welfare that resulted from contact with colonialism and the postcolonial global community. The book will be of interest to academics in the fields of history, African studies, and regional studies.
Author | : Pius Nwabufo C. Okigbo |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Analyses achievements and shortcomings of Nigerian National Plans from the Ten-Year Plan 1946-1955 to the Fifth National Development Plan 1988-1992.
Author | : Allison Akene Ayida |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Nigeria |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780873388016 |
Created as a result of British colonialism, Nigeria emerged as a nation-state during the mid-20th century. Toyin Falola presents statistical data on Nigeria's economy that illustrate the nature of the changes made throughout the mid-20th century.