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Conseil à l'exploitation familiale : expériences en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Montpellier : Paris : Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques (GRET),

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University-based agricultural research : A comparative study in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Year: 2004 Publisher: The Hague : International Service for National Agricultural Research,

From slave trade to empire : Europe and the colonisation of Black Africa 1780s-1880s
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ISBN: 0714656917 Year: 2004 Volume: 8 Publisher: London New York Routledge


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Privatisation en Afrique subsaharienne : un état des lieux
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ISBN: 9789264020399 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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Cet ouvrage fait le point sur les avancées récentes de la privatisation dans la région subsaharienne en Afrique. Avec un produit total de tout juste 8.8 milliards de dollars contre 46 milliards dans les économies en transition au cours de la même période, il est clair que ce processus n’en est qu’à ses balbutiements. Destiné aux décideurs et donneurs, ce rapport retrace les évolutions intervenues, présente les méthodes de privatisation utilisées, puis examine dans quelle mesure les objectifs ont été atteints à l’aide d’études de cas détaillées. 


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Market institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
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ISBN: 0262272458 1423725387 0262262703 9780262272452 9781423725381 9780262262705 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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An analysis of recent data on the economic behavior of market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, with implications for future research and current policy.In Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Marcel Fafchamps synthesizes the results of recent surveys of indigenous market institutions in twelve countries, including Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and presents findings about economics exchange in Africa that have implications both for future research and current policy. Employing empirical data as well as theoretical models that clarify the data, Fafchamps takes as his unifying principle the difficulties of contract enforcement. Arguing that in an unpredictable world contracts are not always likely to be respected, he shows that contract agreements in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the absence of large hierarchies (both corporate and governmental) and as a result must depend to a greater degree than in more developed economies on social networks and personal trust. Fafchamps considers policy recommendations as they apply to countries in three different stages of development: countries with undeveloped market institutions, like Ghana; countries at an intermediate stage, like Kenya; and countries with developed market institutions, like Zimbabwe.Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa caps ten years of personal research by the author. Fafchamps, in collaboration with such institutions as the Africa Division of the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute, participated in the surveys of manufacturing firms and agricultural traders that provide the empirical basis for the book. The result is a work that makes a significant contribution to research on the continuing economic stagnation of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and is also largely accessible to researchers in other fields and policy professionals.

From slave trade to empire : Europe and the colonisation of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s
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ISBN: 1135765898 1280103957 0203323092 9780203323090 9781135765842 9781135765880 9781135765897 9780714656915 9781138870147 113576588X Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic themes in addition to the political and cultural aspects of the transition from commerce to colonies.


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Under construction : 'race' and identity in South Africa today.
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ISBN: 0796214786 Year: 2004 Publisher: Sandton Heinemann

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Comesa and Sadc : Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration
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ISBN: 1462328466 1452712697 1283512556 1451920040 9786613825001 Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It finds that possibilities of growth in intraregional trade may be limited, but that the two arrangements offer opportunities for member countries to gain policy credibility for trade reforms and tariff liberalization and to address structural weaknesses. In this regard, the negotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union can also have a significant impact.

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