Introduction: Africa in changing perspective -- Part A. Analyzing the African experience. Dimensions of development: geography, ecology, history -- Concepts of African economic development: growth, structural change, poverty and gender -- Development theories, political economy and governance --...

Introduction: Africa in changing perspective -- Section A: Analysing the African experience -- Dimensions of development : geography, ecology, history -- Concepts of African economic development : growth, structural change, poverty and gender -- Development theories, political economy and...

Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a 'fragility trap.' Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and...