Mining in Africa

Punam Chuhan-Pole, Andrew L Dabalen, Bryan Christopher Land

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It... Lees meer

Enterprising Women

Mary Hallward-Driemeier

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• This book brings together new household and enterprise data from 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to inform policy makers and practitioners on ways ... Lees meer

Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Deon Filmer, Louise Fox

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• High fertility and declining mortality rates have led to a very young population in most Sub-Saharan African countries. The region's labor force is ex... Lees meer

Safety Nets in Africa

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the ... Lees meer

Le Développement Des Compétences En Afrique Subsaharienne, Un Exercice d'Équilibre

Omar Arias, David K Evans, Indhira Santos

• Paperback | Frans | Africa Development Forum
• Malgré la forte croissance économique que l'Afrique subsaharienne a connue ces vingt dernières années, les niveaux de transformation économique, de ré... Lees meer

Africa's Demographic Transition

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the chang... Lees meer

Contemporary Migration to South Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Building on global interest in migration development, the volume draws attention to one of the most important migration systems in sub-Saharan Africa.... Lees meer

Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited

Bruno Losch, Sandrine Freguin-Gresh, Eric Thomas White

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• This book makes a compelling case for reintegrating structural issues into agricultural and rural development policies, which have for the last 30 yea... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• For the past two decades, experiments in decentralization and federalization have been developing in Africa, Asia, and the formerly communist states o... Lees meer

The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa

Omar Arias, David K Evans, Indhira Santos

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Despite strong recent economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa has levels of economic transformation, poverty reduction, and skill development far below th... Lees meer

The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa

Nancy Benjamin, Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Ibrahima Thione Diop, Stephen S Golub, Dominique Haughton, Birahim Bouna Niang

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• The informal sector in West Africa has some distinctive characteristics. Informality usually connotes small and unorganized producers operating on the... Lees meer

Realizing the Full Potential of Social Safety Nets in Africa

World Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the ... Lees meer

Le Système d'Approvisionnement En Terres Dans Les Villes d'Afrique de l'Ouest

Alain Durand-Lasserve, Maÿlis Durand-Lasserve, Selod Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Les marchés fonciers urbains et périurbains des villes d'Afrique de l'Ouest en expansion rapide opèrent dans des contextes où coexistent des régimes f... Lees meer

Tourism in Africa

Agence Française de Développement, Iain Christie, Eneida Fernandes, Hannah Messerli, Louise Twining-Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Tourism energizes economies and fuels the economic transformation of countries from Cape Verde to South Africa. Its benefits are clear: it can trigger... Lees meer

Urban Labor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

Agence Française de Développement

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Although labor is usually the unique asset upon which poor people can make a living, little is known about the functioning of labor markets in Sub-Sah... Lees meer

Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moussa P Blimpo, Malcolm Cosgrove-Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Access to reliable electricity is a prerequisite for the economic transformation of African economies, especially in a digital age. Yet the electricit... Lees meer

Facing Forward

Sajitha Bashir, Marlaine Lockheed, Elizabeth Ninan, Jee-Peng Tan

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Facing Forward lays out a range of policy and implementation actions that are needed for countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to meet the challenge of impr... Lees meer

Reaping Richer Returns

Aparajita Goyal, John Nash

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Enhancing the productivity of agriculture is vital for Sub-Saharan Africa's economic future and is one of the most important tools to end extreme pove... Lees meer

L'Exploitation Minière En Afrique

Punam Chuhan-Pole, Andrew L Dabalen, Bryan Christopher Land

• Paperback | Frans | Africa Development Forum
• Le boom des ressources naturelles en Afrique a tiré la croissance dans toute la région, sans contribuer de manière substantielle à améliorer le bien-ê... Lees meer

Empowering Women

Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Tazeen Hasan

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• The importance of property rights in providing the incentive to invest, work hard, and innovate has been recognized for centuries. Yet, many women in ... Lees meer

Perspectives

Sajitha Bashir, Marlaine Lockheed, Elizabeth Ninan, Jee-Peng Tan

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Lays out a range of policy and implementation actions that are needed for countries in sub-Saharan Africa to meet the challenge of improving learning ... Lees meer

The Challenge of Stability and Security in West Africa

Alexandre Marc, Neelam Verjee, Stephen Mogaka

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Since independence, the West African sub-region has been an arena for a number of large-scale conflicts and civil wars, as well as simmering and low-i... Lees meer

Financing Africa's Cities

Thierry Paulais

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent -- which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet -- in the... Lees meer

La Transition Démographique de l'Afrique

• Paperback | Engels | Africa Development Forum
• Résumé L'Afrique est sur le bord d'un lancement potentiel de croissance économique soutenue. Cette ascension peut être accélérée par un dividende démo... Lees meer