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Overview

The African Economic Development textbook is prepared for use at the university level.  The book is designed for such courses as African Economic Development, Economic Development, and International Studies.

The book is comprehensive and eclectic, yet accessible to a wide audience.  It pays great attention to maintaining balance among the economic development theoretical constructs.  The text also identifies critical African development issues in a comparative, cross-sectional and sound pedagogical procedure using appropriate theoretical tools. 

The book is structured and written both for students who have had some basic training in economics and for those with little or no formal economics background.  The textbook is accessible to juniors, seniors and first-year master's students.  It highlights and explains, at appropriate points, essential principles and concepts of economics that are particularly relevant for the understanding of African development problems and issues.  These concepts are also defined in a detailed and extensive glossary.  Thus the book is of special value in undergraduate development and international courses that attract students from a variety of disciplines.  However the coverage is broad in scope and rigorous to satisfy any undergraduate and some graduate economics requirements in the field of economic development. 

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Content

The book deals with African Economic Development--the study of the conditions, factors, and processes that bring about or prevent economic development in Africa.  African Economic Development is a multidimensional process that improves 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.  

Against this background, and unlike any existing book, the book focuses on how economic development has unfolded in Africa, the reasons why many African countries are poor, the problems they face, and the solutions to these problems.  It attempts to show why Africa is not developing as fast as other regions by focusing on the source of Africa’s slow growth and why the continent’s output and productivity lag behind those of Asia and Latin America.

  
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Key Features

The articles contained in the text recognize the historical realities of African countries and adopt a pragmatic approach that balances the different schools of thought within the spectrum of African development thinking, to make the book comprehensive and more holistic.  Hence, the text contains articles with the following useful features:

1. Provide a comparative approach to elucidate, real-world development issues.

2. Emphasize a problem-solving scenario, characterize the problems, and identify the best solutions.

3. Use cross-sectional data from various parts of Africa.

4. is multidimensional and interdisciplinary work that present the different dimensions of the issues.

5. Deal, from an economic point of view, with the critical issues relating to women and development, the environment, wars, famine, and AIDS.

6. Use appropriate theoretical tools to deal with issues.

7. Recognize development problems and solutions from institutional and structural perspectives.

8. Understand and indicate the growing global interdependence.

9. Deal with the role of the information age in Africa's economic development.

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Questions

For questions or comments please contact

Emmanuel Nnadozie

Department of Economics

Truman State University

Kirksville, MO 63501

USA

ennadozi@truman.edu

Phone:  (660) 785-5393; Fax:  (660) 785-7524

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