Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World Bank, developing countries have experienced lower growth and rising inequality compared to previous periods. In "Beyond the World Bank Agenda," Howard Stein argues that the controversial institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political contexts that can...

A Low Autumn Sun highlights the interplay between lightness and darkness, and seeks to find beauty in imperfection, in decline, in autumn colors shaded by darkness and muted by decay. When the sun is low, the world is divided into light and shadow. This is as true of the inner world as it is of the world outside. In both, indirect illumination is often the most revealing. This indirect illumination reveals the dark and the light not as two worlds, but as inseparable facets of one. This is the world of our book. The poems cover a range of subjects: the simplicity of a yellow flower on the...

Why has the economic growth performance of Sub-Saharan Africa been disappointing on balance over the past 50 years? More importantly, what can be done to reverse that trend and to sustain and improve upon the accelerated growth experienced in recent years? What are the possibilities and policies for Africa to reduce poverty and achieve sustained, rapid economic growth? What are the lessons of success in both Africa and elsewhere? Could some of the policies that proved so successful in East Asia help reverse the deindustrialization of Africa in the past three decades and be the basis of its...

This text considers gender dimensions of a number of issues central to human security and development in Africa including food security, AIDs and its treatment, legal rights, violence, conflict resolution, informal work, the environment, and poverty alleviation strategies.

Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World Bank, developing countries have experienced lower growth and rising inequality compared to previous periods. In "Beyond the World Bank Agenda," Howard Stein argues that the controversial institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political contexts that can...

Drawing on case-studies from the industrialization of East and Southeast Asian nations, this text critically examines the structural adjustment policies used in Africa since the 1980s. The Asian country studies include Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Meiji Japan.