African Economic Development is the study of the conditions, factors, and processes that bring about or prevent economic development in Africa. More specifically, it is the study of the multidimensional process that promotes or hinders improvement in the quality of life of Africans, accelerates economic growth, reduces inequality, eradicates poverty, as well as induces major changes in economic and social structures, popular attitudes, and national institutions. Quality of life changes are reflected in higher incomes, better education, higher standards of health and nutrition, less poverty, a cleaner environment, more equality of opportunity, greater individual freedom, and a richer cultural life.©
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Recommended Reading
The World Bank, World Development Report, Washington DC: The World Bank.
UNDP, Human
Development Report, New York: Oxford University Press.
Emmanuel Nnadozie, African Culture and American Business in Africa: How to Strategically Manage Cultural Differences in African Business, Kirksville: Afrimax, Inc., 1998.
Mario Azevedo and Emmanuel Nnadozie, Chad: A Nation in Search of its Future, Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1998.
Emmanuel Nnadozie, Oil and Socioeconomic Crisis in Nigeria: A Regional Perspective to the Nigerian Disease, New York: Edwin Mellen, 1995.
Felix Moses Edoho (ed.), Globalization and the New World Order: Promises, Problems, and Prospects for Africa in the Twenty-First Century, Westport: Praeger, 1997.
The World Bank, African Development Indicators, Washington DC: IBRD.
The World Bank, The World Bank Atlas, Washington DC: The World Bank.
Reference Materials
World
Bank, World Development Report
World
Bank, World Data on CD - ROM
World
Bank, African
Development Indicators
World
Bank, African Development Report
UNDP,
Human Development Report
UN,
World Resources
UN,
Statistical Yearbook
UN,
Yearbook of National Accounts and
Statistics
UN,
Demographic Yearbook
UN,
Yearbook of International Trade
Statistics
IMF, International Financial Statistics
Major Economic Development Journals
African
Studies Review
Journal
of African Finance and Economic Development
Journal
of African Economies
Economic
Development and Cultural Change
Journal
of Development Studies
Journal
of Development Economics
World
Development
Journal
of Developing Areas
Development
and Change
Some Helpful Web Sites on Economic Development
The United Nations
http://www.un.org
The United Nations
Development Organization
http://www.undp.org
The World Bank
http://www.worlbank.org
Development Data from the World Bank:
To search for data by topic:
http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/databytopic.html#G
To search for data by country:
http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html
Classification of African Countries
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Francophone |
Anglophone (20) |
Lusophone (5) |
Hispanophone |
| Algeria | Botswana | Angola | Equatorial Guinea |
| Benin | Egypt | Cape Verde | Western Sahara |
| Burkina Faso | The Gambia | Mozambique | |
| Burundi | Ghana | Sao Tome and Principe | |
| Cameroon | Kenya | Guinea Bissau | |
| Central African Republic | Lesotho | ||
| Chad | Liberia | Italophone (2) | Afrophone (1) |
| Comoros | Malawi | Eritrea | Ethiopia |
| Congo | Mauritius | Somalia | |
| Congo (Democratic Republic [Zaire]) | Namibia | ||
| Cote d'Ivoire | Nigeria | Anglo/Franco (1) | |
| Djibouti | Seychelles | Libya | |
| Gabon | Sierra Leone | ||
| Guinea | South Africa | ||
| Madagascar | Sudan | ||
| Mali | Swaziland | ||
| Mauritania | Tanzania | ||
| Morocco | Uganda | ||
| Niger | Zambia | ||
| Reunion | Zimbabwe | ||
| Rwanda | |||
| Senegal | |||
| Togo | |||
| Tunisia |