Covers -- Editorial boards -- Guest editorial: leadership and organizational development in Africa -- Organizational culture: a foundational perspective -- Relational impact of authentic and transactional leadership styles on employee creativity -- Authentic leadership as a contemporary...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction Gareth Austin -- 2 Environmental Impacts of Colonial Dynamics, 1400-1800: The First Global Age and the Anthropocene Amélia Polónia and Jorge M. Pacheco -- 3 Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa,...

As is happening in the industrialized North, the information revolution could well transform the developing nations of the South. In fact, it is already happening. Countries that only a decade ago seemed remote now have the potential to be active players in the processes of global development....

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Creativity and economic growth: theory, measures, and potentials for Morocco -- A comparative study of intangible investment in Egypt and South Africa -- Intellectual capital of South Africa: a comparison with Poland and Romania -- An...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- I Is it Africa's Turn? -- II Forum -- Robert H. Bates -- Ken Banks -- Olu Ajakaiye -- Rosamond Naylor -- David N. Weil -- Jeremy M. Weinstein -- Smita Singh -- Paul Collier -- Rachel Glennerster -- III Real Progress -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix of Resources --...

Ecotourism and Sustainable Development is the most comprehensive overview of worldwide ecotourism available today, showing how both the concept and the reality have evolved over more than twenty-five years. Here Martha Honey revisits six nations she profiled in the first edition?the Galapagos...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Selected Background Data -- 1-1. Basic indicators -- 1-2. Population -- Technical notes -- 2. National Accounts -- 2-1. Gross domestic product, real -- 2-2. Value added in agriculture...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Legal Reform in Africa -A Historical Perspective -- The World Bank 's Role in Legal Reform -- The World Bank 's Mandate -- Modes Used for World Bank Assistance -- Selected Examples of World Bank -Supported Operations...

The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the...

Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more...