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Water is both an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in contemporary Africa. And we begin to learn that far distant processes of consumption and pollution can have their impact on the water systems of Africa: global warming produced by the material culture of the first world thre...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
340
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN #
1847181120
EAN Code
9781847181121
ISBN #
10
Africa faces serious challenges in the world of globalisation. One of the most serious and basic of these challenges is that of information and communication technologies. Meeting the range of social, economic and political goals in the contemporary world requires the meeting of the information chal...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
230
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN #
1847180108
EAN Code
9781847180100
ISBN #
9
This key text brings together a team of leading contributors to address the complex issues of security reconciliation and reconstruction in post conflict societies. Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation is organized into four main sections: the social, political, and economic dimensions of ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Publisher
UCL Press
ISBN #
1844721175
EAN Code
9781844721177
ISBN #
8
Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. This book focuses on recent food and financial crises as they have affected Africa, illustrating the problems using cou...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
CABI
ISBN #
1845938283
EAN Code
9781845938284
ISBN #
6
Democratic reform in Africa has been slow, difficult, and at times painful. Nevertheless, sufficient time has passed for those interested in political and economic development to assess what progress, if any, Africa has made in addressing the need for the consolidation of democratic reform and the r...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN #
0821417223
EAN Code
9780821417225
ISBN #
5
State collapse is one of the major threats to peace, stability, and economic development in Sub-Sahara Africa today. In a collapsed state the regime finally wears out its ability to satisfy the demands of the various groups in society, fails to govern and to keep the state together. The collapse is ...
Author
Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
198
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN #
1443818666
EAN Code
9781443818667
ISBN #
4
Gender plays a hugely significant and too often under-considered role in predicting how accessible resources such as education, wage-based employment, physical and mental health care, adequate nutrition and housing will be to an individual or community. According to a 2001 World Bank report titled '...
Author
Muna Ndulo
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
359
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN #
1443805823
EAN Code
9781443805827
ISBN #
3
The central role that effective governance plays in the economic and social development of a country is widely recognized. Using the example of the Commonwealth countries of eastern and southern Africa, this book analyzes the key issues in the process of developing, strengthening and consolidating t...
Author
John Hatchard, Muna Ndulo, Peter Slinn
Binding
Paperback
Pages
388
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521118298
EAN Code
9780521118293
ISBN #
2