Business & Economics
Business & Economics
Africa: The Management Education Challenge
This is the first of the two volumes, written with strong support from EFMD (The European Foundation for Management Development) and GMAC (The Graduate Management Admissions Council), aimed at understanding and examining the challenges involved in management education across Africa....
$86.00
Africa: The Future of Management Education
Africa is commonly perceived as a global growth regionand a continent on the move, with a huge demand for managerial skills to ensuresustainable economic growth. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding ofthe challenges to management education development in Africa,...
$81.00
Africa, the Final Frontier for Business: Investing for Profit and Impact in the World's Most Promising Market
"Americans need to become educated on the great economic benefits of investing in Africa. But there has to be a high level of ethical practice attached to it. Mr. Nkongchu's book shows the way." -Jerome Ringo, Founder and Chairman of...
$50.00
Africa, the Final Frontier for Business: Investing for Profit and Impact in the World's Most Promising Market
“Americans need to become educated on the great economic benefits of investing in Africa. But there has to be a high level of ethical practice attached to it. Mr. Nkongchu's book shows the way.”-Jerome Ringo, Founder and Chairman of Zoetic...
$29.00
Africa: The Fashion Continent
Gain new perspective on the vibrant and innovative world of contemporary African fashion design, bursting with fresh creativity and free from reductive stereotypes.From the runway in Lagos and music festivals in Casablanca or Nairobi, to the “image makers” of Marrakech...
$39.00
Africa's Lions: Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies
Examining the economic forces that will shape Africa's future.Africa’s Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the challenges and issues in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria,...
$52.00
Africa- The Emerging Natural Gas Market Poised to Fuel Growth for African Economies: BP and Kosmo Energy Partnership to Create a New LNG hub in Africa
A New LNG Hub in Africa on the Horizon The recent large offshore natural gas discoveries in Africa have focused the attention of the international oil and gas industry on large LNG export projects that are essential to monetize these...
$16.00
Africa's Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change
Interrogates the narratives of "land grabbing" and "agricultural investment" through detailed local studies that illuminate how these are experienced on the ground and the implications for Africa's land and agricultural economy.Africa has been at the centre of a "land grab"...
$39.00
Africa Telecom and Internet Business Opportunities Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Opportunities Contacts
Africa Telecom and Internet Business Opportunities Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Opportunities Contacts
$130.00
Africa's Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation
Sustainable infrastructure development is vital for Africa’s prosperity. And now is the time to begin the transformation. This volume is the culmination of an unprecedented effort to document, analyze, and interpret the full extent of the challenge in developing Sub-Saharan...
$52.00
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