This handbook provides a reference resource to showcase insightful and nuanced perspectives on Africa's agriculture, industry, services, and manufacturing sectors; factors affecting the sectors' competitiveness; and the sectors' contribution to employment, economic growth, and sustainable...

Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Question of Africa’s Economic Sectors and Development -- Part 2: Agriculture Sector -- Chapter 2: The African Cotton Sector: Old and New Conundrums -- Chapter 3: The Political Economy of Fisheries Reform in Senegal -- Chapter 4: Are large scale land...

Introduction: Development, the largest of four UN functions / Stephen Browne And Thomas G. Weiss -- The UN development system : origins, structure, status / Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss -- The UN and development : objectives and governance / José Antonio Ocampo -- Emerging powers, a...

Autoren unterschiedlicher Professionen analysieren in diesem Band die neuen globalen Entwicklungsziele, die Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), die 2015 die Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) als dominantes Referenzsystem die Entwicklungspolitik der internationalen Gemeinschaft bestimmen...