num_pages: 190
description: Internationally driven development programmes have not been entirely successful in transforming the economic status of African countries. Since the late 1990s many African countries have started to take initiatives to develop an integrated framework that tackles poverty and promotes socio-economic development in their respective countries. This book provides a critical evaluation of homegrown development initiatives in Africa set up as alternatives to externally sponsored development. Focusing specifically on Ghana Nigeria South Africa and Kenya the book takes a qualitative and comparative approach to offer the first ever in-depth analysis of indigenous development programmes. It This book will be of interest to students and scholars of development studies international politics political economy public policy and African politics sociology and economics.
language: English
title: Homegrown Development in Africa: Reality or illusion?
publisher: Routledge