Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa

ISBN-13: 9780367885328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str.

Mike Odey; Toyin Falola

Opis

The book provides new understandings on the issue of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and makes recommendations for policy frameworks to help African governments and the world community to alleviate poverty. The contributors focus on practical issues as the best approach to formulate and implement poverty reduction strategies in contemporary Africa

Spis treści

Part I: Dimensions and Assessments of Poverty Reduction Policies and Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

1. Poverty in Post-colonial Africa: The Legacy of Contested Perspectives

2. Scaling up Power Infrastructure Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa for Poverty Alleviation

3. The Impact of Anti-Corruption Conventions in Sub-Saharan Africa

4.  The Besieged Continent: Interrogating Contemporary Issues of Corruption and Poverty in Africa

5. PEPFAR and Preventing HIV Transmission: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
                                                                         
6.  Reflections on the Current Challenges of Poverty Reduction in Africa

7. A Critical Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategies in Post-Colonial Africa

Part II: Problems of Good Governance and Institutional Failures in West-Africa

8.  Weaknesses and Failures of Poverty Reduction Policies and Programs in Nigeria since 1960 

9.  In the Web of Neo¬-Liberalism and Deepening Contradictions? Assessing  Poverty Reform Strategies in West Africa Since the Mid-1980s

10.  An Assessment of Abuse of the elderly as an Aspect of Poverty in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria

11. Reflections on the Interface between Poverty and Food Insecurity in Nigeria

12. An Appraisal of Poverty Reduction Program in Bayelsa State of Nigeria: “In- Care of the People” (COPE)

13. A Comparative Analysis of Incidence of Poverty in Three Urban Centers in Ghana  from 1945-1990   

O autorze

Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Mike O. Odey is a Professor of Economic History at Benue State University, Nigeria.