Africa : beyond recovery / by Thandika Mkandawire.

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Mkandawire, P. Thandika [author.]

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TextSeries: Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures ; Series 32Publisher: Legon-Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers for University of Ghana, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9988860250
9789988860257

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Africa.DDC classification:

338.96 23

LOC classification:

HC800 .M53 2015

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Contents:

Lecture 1 -- from recovery to development; introduction; policy makers' claims; factors behind the recovery; mea culpa and the consequences; new challenges and opportunities; conclusion; Lecture 2 -- social equality and development; introduction; the adjustment years: socially blind macroeconomics; post-washington consensus; Lecture 3 -- bringing the universities back in; some consequences of maladjustment; what is to be done?

Summary: Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectureseries at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africa's attempts at growth and development since the independence era, her attempts at recovery from a string of serious socio-political set-backs, and advocates for the role of universities as essential agents in the drive to sustained development.

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Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectureseries at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africa's attempts at growth and development since the independence era, her attempts at recovery from a string of serious socio-political set-backs, and advocates for the role of universities as essential agents in the drive to sustained development.