Economics & Development

Books

Croissance et Développement au Cameroun
2008, author(s)-editor(s) Aloysius Ajab Amin, Jean-Luc Dubois
D’une Croissance Equilibrée à un Développement Equitable Croissance et Développement au Cameroun: D’une Croissance Equilibrée à un Développement Equitable, livre qui porte sur l’économie du Cameroun s’inscrit dans la logique du développement durable et de ses conditions de durabilité économique, sociale et écologique. Tout en se situant dans ce cadre, l’ouvrage se focalise surtout sur les deux premières dimensions à savoir: l’économique et la sociale. Lorsqu’on examine la situation économique camerounaise (...)
Neoliberal Bandwagonism
2009, author(s)-editor(s) Piet Konings
Civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon Civil society and empowerment have become buzz words in neoliberal development discourse. Yet many unanswered questions remain on the actual nature and configuration assumed by civil society in specific contexts. Typically, while neoliberals perceive civil-society organisations as vital intermediary channels for the successful implementation of desired economic and political reforms, they are inclined to blame the current (...)
Youth and Nation-Building in Cameroon
2009, author(s)-editor(s) Churchill Ewumbue-Monono
A Study of National Youth Day Messages and Leadership Discourse (1949-2009) This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in studying youth, politics and society in Africa. The book presents and explores themes and content of Youth Day Messages: how these messages tied in with, or veered away from, key events and issues of the time; how (...)
The Power in the Writer
2008, author(s)-editor(s) Mwalimu George Ngwane
Collected Essays on Culture, Democracy and Development in Africa The book examines the creative industries of Cameroon and Africa and makes bold the cultural triumphant assertion that Africa is home to some of the most diverse cultural patrimony and the most versatile creative professionals. It also discusses indigenous development models and questions the rationale for Eurocentric democratic paradigms which have partly contributed to the demise of a concrete democratic development (...)
Urban Appropriation and Transformation
2008, author(s)-editor(s) Ignasio Malizani Jimu
Bicycle Taxi and Handcart Operators This book is about emerging informal responses to unemployment in Malawi. To the bicycle taxi and handcart operators who are at the centre of the book, informality is a means for negotiating newer experiences and challenges associated with urbanisation. Jimu richly documents how informal economy activities continue to represent grassroots responses to widespread poverty, unavailability of meaningful employment opportunities and the failure of the state (...)
Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development
2009, author(s)-editor(s) John Bobuin Gemandze, Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong
This book deals with the important subject of governance and development. Even more significantly, the book has the merits of critically evaluating the concept of good governance in an African context, identifying the internal factors that impinge on good governance and development, and proposing solutions. It provides empirical evidence on the extent to which inappropriate governing strategies are the main internal obstacle to development in Cameroon. The authors discuss factors (...)
The State in Africa: An Analysis of Impacts of Historical Trajectories of Global Capitalist Expansion and Domination in the Continent
2010, author(s)-editor(s) Tatah Mentan
This book critically analyzes the complex relationship between the African state and capitalist globalization. It describes in great detail the significant effects of the various historical trajectories of global capitalist expansion on the nature and functions of the African state while focusing on the present triumph of globalized neo-liberalism on the African continent. The history of the state in Africa has been misread and misinterpreted through the Eurocentric convictions of European (...)
We Get Nothing from Fishing. Fishing for Boat Opportunities Amongst Senegalese Fisher Migrants
2010, author(s)-editor(s) Henrietta Mambo Nyamnjoh
The world is regularly confronted on television and in other mass media with dramatic images of African boat migrants. Seemingly desperate, these Africans, most of them males, are willing to risk a perilous journey at sea, hoping for a better life in Europe. And, even worse, hundreds more are believed to die each year, swallowed up anonymously by the choppy waters off Africaís coast. This book focuses on fishermen who have played a pivotal role in boat migration from Senegal to Spainís (...)
Road Companion to Democracy and Meritocracy: Further Essays from an African Perspective
2010, author(s)-editor(s) Godfrey B. Tangwa
Each of the essays in this book is marked by a certain simplicity and clarity, a seriousness tinged with humour, masking a profundity that are unmistakably characteristic of Godfrey B. Tangwa alias Rodcod Gobata, one of the leading critical minds amongst Cameroonians. The essays are centered on the theme of democracy and meritocracy which the author believes to be the pre-conditions for genuine development in Africa. The immediate focus of these essays is Cameroon, a country remarkable (...)
The New World Order Ideology and Africa: Understanding and Appreciating Ambiguity, Deceit and Recapture of Decolonized Spaces
2010, author(s)-editor(s) Tatah Mentan
The New World Order Ideology expressed in the form of neoliberal globalization has been used by numerous politicians, scholars and media men through the ages. It refers to a worldwide conspiracy to effect complete and total control over the planet through money farming. This book examines the case of Africa put directly on the chopping board as client states by this ideology – when less hampered by idealistic slogans as human rights, raising living standards and democratization – to better (...)