Regional Disparity In Subsaharan Africa: Structural Readjustment Of Uneven Development

by Assefa Mehretu

Overview

This book is an outcome of research on African development from the standpoint of economic geography which I have been undertaking over the last four years. The initial impetus for the research was a social science grant from the Rockefeller Foundation which enabled me to write most of the preliminary draft of the book during a sabbatical in1984/85 which I spent at the University of Zimbabwe as Visiting Professor of Geography. A good deal of the latter part of the book was written in September of 1985 at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and ConferenceCenter in Bellagio, Italy, where I spent three weeks as a member of theReflections on Development Fellows of the Foundation from Africa and Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367285456
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2019
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations — Preface — 1. The Nature of the African Development Crisis — 2. Structural Hegemony in the Economic Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa — 3. Structural Hegemony and Ecological Constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa — 4. Fundamentals of Structural Hegemony: Theoretical Issues for Spatial Readjustment — 5. Empirical Regularities of Structural Hegemony: The Economic Geography of the Postcolonial State in Sub-Saharan Africa — 6. Approaches to Structural Readjustment and Regional Development Planning — References — Index.