Product Description: The Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises. The first is a security crisis characterized by a range of devastating inter-state and inter-communal conflicts, including civil wars. The second is an economic crisis, evidenced by widespread debilitating poverty, chronic food insecurity, and frequent cycles of famines...read more

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Product Description: This book asserts two central questions in African development today: have structural adjustment programmes failed, and ought the World Bank and the IMF to be paying more attention to the particular circumstances of individual countries and to the alternative policies being proposed by Africans? Powerful case studies of education, health, public services, and import-export performance demonstrate the frequent lack of success of structural adjustment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book asserts two central questions in African development today: have structural adjustment programmes failed, and ought the World Bank and the IMF to be paying more attention to the particular circumstances of individual countries and to the alternative policies being proposed by Africans? Powerful case studies of education, health, public services, and import-export performance demonstrate the frequent lack of success of structural adjustment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book attempts to explain the failure of Ethiopia's land reform and the problem of transformation of the peasantry through a holistic approach, by pulling together numerous factors and themes. The book first defines a comprehensive land reform as a process that influences the deprived peasant masses economically and politically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)