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Africa: Starting Business in Africa Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Contacts
Africa: Starting Business in Africa Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Contacts
$130.00
Africa's Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
$156.00
Africa's Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond.Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes...
$156.00
Africa's Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
$56.00
Africa's Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond.Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes...
$56.00
Africa's Incomplete Cycles of Development
Juxtaposing qualitative as well as quantitative facts across the broader African continent, the authors explore critical issues compounding developmental woes of the continent at the present. Despite the facts being on the fringes as explanations to the sluggish development of...
$143.00
Africa's Idle Engine: Unlocking the Future of Work for a Jobless Generation
Africa’s Idle Engine: Unlocking the Future of Work for a Jobless GenerationBy Edison UviaseWhy is the world’s youngest continent facing its biggest employment crisis—and how do we fix it?In Africa’s Idle Engine, Edison Uviase delivers a powerful, data-driven, and hope-filled...
$22.00
Africa Projected: From Recession to Renaissance by the Year 2000? (1985)
This book presents an original and critical overview of Africa's diverse political economies which takes into account contemporary crises, current analyses, historical insights, and projected problems. In addition to treating new data, it proposes a novel framework for analysis which...
$78.00
Africa's ICT Infrastructure
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been a remarkable success in Africa. In just 10 years―dating from the end of the 1990s―mobile network coverage rose from 16 percent to 90 percent of the urban population and by 2009 nearly half...
$39.00
Africa's Health Challenges: Sovereignty, Mobility of People and Healthcare Governance. Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, John J. Kirton, Franklyn Lisk, Hany
This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africa’s health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile Africa'. The collected set of specialized contributions in this volume examines how national...
$95.00
Africa's Health Challenges: Sovereignty, Mobility of People and Healthcare Governance. Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, John J. Kirton, Franklyn Lisk, Hany
This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africa’s health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile Africa'. The collected set of specialized contributions in this volume examines how national...
$362.00
Africa's Quest for Economic Development
This research study is an examination and evaluation of development policies of interventions intended to promote Africa's graduation from poverty and vulnerability to prosperity and security. Based on Ugandan exerience it focuses on the period 1890-19990 - the era of...
$67.00
Africa's Propensity for a Net Zero Energy Transition
This book explores the issue of a sustainable energy transition in Africa, including the current energy landscape and exploration of various scenarios for achieving net zero emissions. It highlights the challenges faced by African countries in transitioning to clean energy...
$247.00
Africa's Power Infrastructure: Investment, Integration, Efficiency
Africa’s chronic power problems have escalated in recent years into a crisis affecting 30 countries, taking a heavy toll on economic growth and productivity. The region has inadequate generation capacity, limited electrification, low power consumption, unreliable services, and high costs....
$39.00
Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
"This book provides insights on solving challenges of the sharing economy in Africa such as cultural barriers, trust deficiencies, low skills, and weak regulatory regimes. It also examines the contribution of platforms to inclusive economic development in Africa"--
$214.00
Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
Digital transformation concepts have created new business principles such as the on-demand economy and a new sharing economy. While the on-demand economy has primarily grown out of industrialized economies, especially North America, Africa has been known to exhibit communal living...
$279.00
Africa's Path to Net-Zero: Exploring Scenarios for a Sustainable Energy Transition (2023)
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities for achieving a net-zero energy transition in Africa. With a focus on policy, technology, financing, and socio-political factors, the book presents four potential scenarios for a sustainable energy transition...
$182.00
Africa's Path to Economic Development: A Guide for Policy Makers and Scholars
Africa’s Path to Economic Development is an uncommon book that sheds light on the perennial woes of nearly all countries that make up the African continent. Uncommon because unlike many other books that have been published on the challenges faced...
$23.00
Africa's Global Infrastructures: South - South Transformations in Practice
The boom in South-South relations since the early 2000s has seen a flurry of investment in African infrastructure from emerging markets across the Global South. While the extent to which these projects spur growth is constantly debated, few studies have...
$42.00
Africa's Gene Revolution: Genetically Modified Crops and the Future of African Agriculture
As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology.The first data-driven assessment of the ecological, social, and...
$52.00
Africa's Gene Revolution: Genetically Modified Crops and the Future of African Agriculture
As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology.The first data-driven assessment of the ecological, social, and...
$182.00
Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny
Africa remains in continuous transition. Many of its communities are based around ancient or feudal structures, while others have modernized but experienced turbulent times. Modernity in Africa has largely been scattered and thinly rooted, but it now needs to be...
$43.00
AFRICA’s FUTURE : A colossal challenge: New Development Finance Model - Establishing National Risk Funds
Africa’s narrative has been written for African people. The continent is now on the tip of an incredible transformation into a future full of potential; it is enough to look at demographic trends to understand the challenges. And the world’s...
$61.00
Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution
With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile devices to the entrepreneurial...
$122.00
Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution
With the rise of new technologies and disruptive innovations reshaping the global economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has been characterized as a fusion between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. From the increasing adoption of mobile devices to the entrepreneurial...
$40.00
Africa's Financial Horizon: Opportunities and Challenges for Investors
Discover the untapped potential of Africa's investment landscape with "Africa's Financial Horizon: Opportunities and Challenges for Investors." This comprehensive guide delves into the dynamic and rapidly evolving markets across the continent, offering invaluable insights and practical strategies for investors seeking...
$14.00
Africa's Finances: The Contribution of Remittances
Globally, the volume of remittances to developing countries exceeds the development aid budgets. This volume explores the contribution of remittances to Africa’s finances and provides concrete guidelines as to how these may be expanded. It contains essays by the field...
$88.00
Africa's Energy Potential
The BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print publications. In broadening the public understanding of government and its work, an enlightened democracy can grow and prosper. Ranging...
$24.00
Africa's Emerging Securities Markets: Developments in Financial Infrastructure
The increasing globalization of financial markets has resulted in a substantial increase in net private capital flows to developing countries, primarily the emerging economies of Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Until recently, investors have ignored opportunities in Africa. African...
$130.00
Africa's Elusive Quest for Development (2006)
Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic and social plight of Africa lies in better policies, good governance, and, more...
$71.00
Africa's Economic Partnership with China: An Holistic Analysis
This book examines how increasing Africa-China relations in the fields of trade, development finance and investment have impacted productive capacities and structural economic transformation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The book argues that statistical and empirical evidence shows that China’s influence...
$234.00
Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems.In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for...
$156.00