Beyond Urban Bias in Africa
. . . Beyond Urban Bias is likely to prove a major text on African development . . . for many years to come.
—Roger C. Riddell, author of Foreign Aid Reconsidered
The essays in this book examine the question of whether African development has historically been weighted in favor of the urban areas. The authors worry that the benefits of urban development are being lost in current adjustment approaches. What is necessary is to harness the financial and human resources of the human city as part of a strategy to ensure greater and more widespread economic development.
. . . Beyond Urban Bias is likely to prove a major text on African development . . . for many years to come.
—Roger C. Riddell, author of Foreign Aid Reconsidered
The essays in this book examine the question of whether African development has historically been weighted in favor of the urban areas. The authors worry that the benefits of urban development are being lost in current adjustment approaches. What is necessary is to harness the financial and human resources of the human city as part of a strategy to ensure greater and more widespread economic development.
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Contents
Contents:
1. African Economic Development and Urbanization
2. Urban Centers in African Economics
3. African City Systems and Urban Growth
4. The Role of Migration in African Urbanization
5. Employment Growth and the Wage Structure in Urban Africa
6. Neoclassical Models of Urbanization and Competing Paradigms
7. Development Policies from an Urban Perspective: Strategies for the Future
