Regional Disparity in Subsaharan Africa: Structural Readjustment of Uneven Development

ISBN-13: 9780367300913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str.

Assefa Mehretu

Opis

This book is an outcome of research on African development from the standpoint of economic geography. The principal objective in this work is to highlight and reflect on the principal socio-spatial constraints to development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that have been largely ignored by development research and planning.

Spis treści

Preface -- The Nature of the African Development Crisis -- Structural Hegemony in the Economic Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa -- Structural Hegemony and Ecological Constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Fundamentals of Structural Hegemony: Theoretical Issues for Spatial Readjustment -- Empirical Regularities of Structural Hegemony: The Economic Geography of the Postcolonial State in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Approaches to Structural Readjustment and Regional Development Planning

O autorze

Mehretu, Assefa