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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Tables and Boxes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Africa and the Globalization Challenge | |
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| A Continent in Despair | |
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| Limited Progress in Human Development | |
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| The Causes of Africa's Economic, Social and Political Crisis | |
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| The New Protectionism in the Era of Free Trade | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Renewing and Restoring Democracy in Africa: A Herculean Task | |
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| The Political Legacy of Colonialism and the Challenge of Democratization | |
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| What Type of Democracy for Africa? | |
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| Economic Reform and the 'New' Political Conditionality: A Confusion of Agenda | |
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| The Limits of Democratization from Above | |
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| The 'Silent Revolution': Democratization from Below | |
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| The Dilemma of Competing Agendas | |
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| What Is To Be Done? Democratizing Democracy and the Market | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Reforming African Education for the Twenty-first Century | |
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| The Scale of the Educational Crisis | |
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| Educational Policy after Independence | |
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| The Missed Opportunities: Africa's Experience with Educational Reform | |
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| Priorities and Strategies for Education: Enhancing Human Capacities in an Era of Globalization | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Agriculture and Rural Development | |
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| Explaining the Decline: Contending Perspectives | |
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| Agricultural Reform under Structural Adjustment: The Post-1980 Experience | |
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| The Roots of Food Insecurity and Rural Poverty | |
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| The 'Revenge of the Poor': Peasants' Response to Anti-peasant Agricultural Policies | |
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| Changing Course: A New World Order for Peasants | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Rethinking Regional Economic Integration: From Rhetoric to Reality | |
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| Competing Paradigms on Regional Integration: What Lessons for Africa? | |
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| Africa's Poor Track Record in Regional Integration | |
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| Key Impediments to Effective Economic Integration | |
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| Neo-liberalism and the Changing Context of Integration | |
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| Regional Integration in Southern Africa: Problems and Prospects | |
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| Conclusions and Recommendations | |
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| The Urban-Rural Interface: Managing Fast-growing Cities in Africa | |
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| The Colonial Roots of African Urbanization Management 1960-90 | |
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| Dimensions of the Urban Crisis in Africa | |
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| Urban Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agenda for the Next Decade and Beyond | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Rebuilding War-torn Societies and Preventing Deadly Conflicts | |
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| The Political, Economic and Social Context of Conflict | |
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| Africa's Dismal Record in Conflict Resolution | |
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| The Role of the International Community: Partners in Crime? | |
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| Key Principles for Resolving and Preventing Conflict in Africa | |
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| From Bullet to Ballot: Post-conflict Reconstruction | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Concluding Remarks: A Wake-up Call to Fellow Africans | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |