Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa: Essays in Honour of Robert Gardiner (Routledge Library Editions: Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415593751 ISBN 13: 9780415593755

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

First published in 1990, this volume considers the question: is there any hope for economic recovery in Africa? Written by a team of leading development economists, the book takes a close look at the economic decline of Sub-Saharan Africa and provides a set of guidelines for promoting economic recovery. Stressing the need for greater co-operation between African states, the contributors outline the economic and social policies required to put this crisis-torn region back on the road to sustained development.

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About the Author

James Pickett is Professor and Director of the David Livingstone Institute at the University of Strathclyde and Adviser to the African Development Bank. He has been Special Economic Adviser to the UN Economic Commission for Africa and consultant to UNIDO, ILO, UNDP, the Ford Foundation, the OECD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the EEC, the ODA and the ECA. Much of his work has been on technology, and he has a long-standing interest in Ethiopia and Ghana. He was a member of an ILO (JASPA) mission to Ethiopia in 1982. Hans Singer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex and Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies. His teachers included Schumpeter and Keynes. After teaching and conducting research at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow, he spent twenty years at the UN before returning to British academic life in 1969, when he joined the IDS. Among his many publications is a particularly famous paper on the 'Distribution of gains between investing and borrowing countries'.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415593751
• ISBN 13: 9780415593755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Pickett James, Singer Hans