Africa's development challenges and the World Bank
Subtitle: hard questions, costly choices
By: edited by Stephen K. Commins.
Contributors: Commins, Stephen K.; World Bank.; University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center.; University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center. Development Institute.
Publisher: L. Rienner
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Africa -- Economic policy -- Congresses; Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-  -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"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.
Table of contents: title: Africa's development challenge / Stephen K. Commins; title: What can be done in Africa? : the World Bank's response / Edward Jaycox; title: Policy reforms for economic development in Tanzania / Nguyuru Lipumba; title: Impact of the World Bank-supported Agricultural Development Project on rural women in Zambia / Monica Munachonga; title: Issues of political economy in formulating donor policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa / Robert Christiansen, Cheryl Christensen, and Beatrice Edwards; title: The political basis for agricultural policy reform / Robert Bates; title: Food aid and policy-based lending to Africa / Raymond Hopkins; title: Political economy and policy reform in Sub-Saharan Africa / Carol Lancaster; title: Bureaucratic growth and economic stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa / David Abernethy; title: Structural adjustment in the longer run / Charles Elliott.