CONTENDING ISSUES IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT -- Contents -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Conflicts and Convergence in African Development Thinking -- PART II Bring Back the State: From Instability to Consolidation -- 2 The Political Economy of State Reconstitution in Africa -- 3 The Mass Media and...

Economic welfare is assumed to be pursued by an African country considering or evaluating its Regional Integration Arrangement (RIA) membership. The proposed approach assigns to imputed residuals computed from pre-integration trend lines the change in after reform per-capita GDP and gives an...

1. Introduction -- 2. Towards Analytic Coherence in Assessing Economic Development Policy Making: Special Reference to African Countries -- 3. Building the Capacity for Domestic Resource Mobilization in African Countries -- 4. Regional Economic Integration in Africa and Intra-Regional Trade --...