Politics and Economics of Africa

Contents: Preface. Introduction; The Horn of Africa: War and Humanitarian Crisis; Africa: US Foreign Assistance Issues; Nigeria in Political Transition; Globalisation and the African Financial Markets: Issues for Global Resolution; Policy Reform and Urban Livelihood in Ghana; What Explains African Civil Wars: Politics or Economics?; Distributive Politics and African Bureaucracies; An Economic Analysis of Potential Medium Scale Farms in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Sugarcane, Paddy and Dairy Farms in Tanzania; The Political Economy of the Cocoa Industry in Post-Colonial Nigeria, 1960s-1990s; The Ethiopian Nile Basin, Food Security, Poverty and Conflict Risk; Index.