TY - BOOK AU - Abernethy,David AU - Bates,Robert AU - Christensen,Cheryl AU - Christiansen,Robert AU - Commins,Stephen AU - Commins,Stephen K. AU - Edwards,Beatrice AU - Elliott,Charles AU - Hopkins,Raymond AU - Jaycox,Edward AU - Lancaster,Carol AU - Lipumba,Nguyuru AU - Munachonga,Monica TI - Africa's Development Challenges and the World Bank: Hard Questions, Costly Choices SN - 9781555871161 PY - 2023///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Contributors --; CHAPTER 1 Facing Africa's Development Challenges --; PART I The World Bank in Africa --; CHAPTER 2 What Can be Done in Africa? The World Bank's Response --; CHAPTER 3 Policy Reforms for Economic Development in Tanzania --; CHAPTER 4 Impact of the World Bank- Supported Agricultural Development Project on Rural Women in Zambia --; PART II Donor Policy: The Challenges of Reform --; CHAPTER 5 Issues of Political Economy in Formulating Donor Policy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa --; CHAPTER 6 The Political Basis for Agricultural Policy Reform --; CHAPTER 7 Food Aid and Policy-Based Lending to Africa: Dilemmas for States and Donors --; PART III Problems of Political Economy --; CHAPTER 8 Political Economy and Policy Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa --; CHAPTER 9 Bureaucratic Growth and Economic Stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa --; CHAPTER 10 Structural Adjustment in the Longer Run: Some Uncomfortable Questions --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access N2 - Using as a point of departure the World Bank's views on the development problems facing Africa, the authors look at donor policy and describe some of the challenges facing outside agencies, assess the experiences of particular African countries with World Bank programs and with adjustment policies, and pose some broad political and economic questions that are at risk of being overlooked in the search for immediate cures to Africa's development dilemmas UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685853020 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685853020 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685853020/original ER -