scholarly journals Implementation Issues in Rural Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries: Problems and Prospects

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-119
Author(s):  
VA Okosun ◽  
JO Ezomo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Rural Development Policies

It is a credo amongst scholars cum academics all over the globe that well coordinated and elaborate programmes and policies of rural development mounted by the third world countries in sub-Saharan Africa will lift her entire citizenry from manacle of gross underdevelopment to a region of  development in all facets of their economies. The countries in sub-Saharan African have spent trillions of dollars in rural development sector but an overview of the economies of these countries show that the vast population are marooned and encapsulated in gross poverty, ignorance, and  underdevelopment. The reason is attributable to poor implementation of rural development policies and programmes coupled with a host of  variegated factors. This paper therefore defines the concept of  implementation and rural development. The authors of this paper adopt the modernization theory to explicate the work. It discusses the significance of rural development to the economies of Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper also explains how poor implementation of rural  development programmes affects these countries. Moreover, it  orchestrates the factors/problems that impede rural development drives of various governments in Sub-Saharan African. Furthermore, it elucidates on the prospects of rural development. The paper finally suggests that an effective implementation of rural development programmes in all  ramifications is the only vehicle for rapid growth and economic  development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Mechanisms: Historical Evidence from Botswana

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-144
Author(s):  
Robin Harding
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Electoral Competition ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Electoral Incentives ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Rural Development Policies

The third stage of the empirical strategy considers a potential counter to the central theoretical argument; it is possible that rather than resulting from electoral incentives, any urban–rural differences in development may result from contemporaneous external forces, such as donor conditionality. If foreign donors encouraged both competitive elections and pro-rural policies, then the link between electoral competition and pro-rural development across Africa may be spurious. Chapter 6 addresses this possibility through a largely qualitative analysis of the historical case of Botswana in the period immediately following independence. This case is useful because uniquely in sub-Saharan Africa Botswana has held competitive elections consistently since gaining independence in 1966. Taking advantage of this, Chapter 6 explores the link between electoral competition and pro-rural development during a period when the international context was very different, and when no such external pressures to introduce competitive elections and rural development policies were likely to have been felt. Using archival resources such as original minutes from cabinet meetings and ministerial correspondence, the chapter traces the ruling party’s responses to electoral outcomes in the early post-independence period. Despite its dominant position, the ruling party responded strongly to losses of rural support with a major program of rural development policies. Interestingly, cabinet minutes document an explicit policy of prioritizing rural development projects that were both highly visible and likely to be completed prior to the next election, suggesting a strong role for electoral incentives. Alongside this archival evidence Chapter 6 also analyses the contents of the ruling party’s manifestos during this period to evaluate changes in policy emphasis during this period. Taken together, the evidence from this historical case strongly supports the proposed theoretical mechanism, suggesting that electoral competition does indeed lead to rural development in Africa.

Second-hand clothing encounters in Zambia: global discourses, Western commodities, and local histories

Africa ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Tranberg Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
The Third World

AbstractThe rapid expansion in commercial exports of second-hand clothing from the West to the Third World and the increase in second-hand clothing consumption in many African countries raise challenging questions about the effects of globalisation and the meanings of the West and the local that consumers attribute to objects at different points of their journey across global space. This article draws on extensive research into the sourcing of second-hand clothing in the West, and its wholesaling, retailing, distribution and consumption in Zambia. Discussing how people in Zambia are deahng with the West's unwanted clothing, the article argues that a cultural economy is at work in local appropriations of this particular commodity that is opening space for local agency in clothing consumption. Clothing has a powerful hold on people's imagination because the self and society articulate through the dressed body. To provide background for this argument, the article briefly sketches recent trends in the global second-hand clothing trade that place the countries of sub-Saharan Africa as the world's largest importing region. There follows a discussion of Zambians' preoccupation with clothing, both new and second-hand, historically and at the present time. It demonstrates that the meanings consumers in Zambia attribute to second-hand clothing are neither uniform nor static but shift across class and gender lines, and between urban and rural areas. Above all, they depend on the cultural politics of their time. In dealing with clothing, people in Zambia are making sense of post-colonial society and their own place within it and in the world at large.

Kaleidoscope

English Today ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-41
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Third ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Bank Accounts ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World

‘All other regions of the Third World made economic progress in the 1980s; not sub-Saharan Africa. Arms are not the only reason. Every year at least $15 billion in capital leaves Africa. Much of it is booty, siphoned off by vampire elites. For example, last April the Christian Association of Nigeria revealed that more than 3,000 Nigerians operated Swiss bank accounts and that Nigerians were near the top of the list of Third World patrons of Swiss banks.

scholarly journals Globalization and the Postcolonial World

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
David Wilmsen
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Economic Regulation ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
The Third ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World

According to Ankie Hoogvelt, this book is intended to "introduce students todebates regarding the development prospects of the Third World." This sheaccomplishes in very compact and richly documented detail. Indeed, thereare so many citations that the lack of a bibliography is sorely felt.The book is divided into three parts, each addressing a broad themeaffecting development and the Third World. The first considers the historicalroute of capitalist expansion into a world economic system by means of,among other things, the core countries' depredations of their peripheralcolonies. The second treats the world economy's increasing internationalizationand the retrenchment of wealth accumulation by means of strategichegemony and economic regulation, especially by the United States. Thefinal part examines the resultant situations in the four distinct socioculturalrealms of the Third World, devoting a chapter to each: sub-Saharan Africa,the Islamic world, East Asia, and Latin America.True to the spirit of debate she is trying to foster in her students,Hoogvelt challenges some of the conventional assumptions about humansociety's advancement under globalization. She points out that, contraryto expert consensus, the flow of wealth to the Third world has declinedsince the colonial era. Or, again, that world trade represented a greaterpercentage of world production at the beginning of the twentieth century,before the era of globalization, than it did at its end, when it was in fullstride. Or, yet again, that much of the apparent increase in trade, especially ...

Have Agricultural Economists Neglected Poverty Issues? (The Distinguishedl Lecture)

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4I) ◽  
pp. 551-578
Author(s):  
William C. Thlesenhusen
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Industrial Country ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Industrial Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
Black Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World

In the short term one can be pessimistic about the collective progress of the Third World and its interactions with industrial countries. There is plenty of bad news. With one-quarter of the world's population, industrialized countries consume about 80 percent of the world's goods. With three-quarters of the world's population, developing countries command less than one-quarter of the world's resources. And the imbalance is growing worse.! Of the 2.7 billion people in the tropical and subtropical regions outside of China, 40 percent live in poverty; more than 14 million of their children under 5 years of age starve to death or die of disease each year? Furthermore, at the same time as an increasing proportion of the population of Africa is composed of young people (65 percent of its population is now under age 25), education budgets are being cut - from $ 10.8 billion in 1980 to $ 5.8 billion in 1986.3 In an article assessing the globalization of economies, Richard J. Barnet writes: "Poverty, population pressures, civil war, and repression are turning Sub-Saharan Africa - black Africa minus South Africa and Namibia - into a giant disaster zone, and in countries in South America, such as Colombia and Peru, the civil society is dissolving. In the Philippines more than seventy percent of the population is poor by any human standard. With the end of the Cold War, the increasing marginalization of the Third World appears likely."4 The predictions are ominous. Barnet concludes his article, written before the crisis in Iraq, by speaking to an industrial-country audience: "There is no real north-south dialogue, and politicians in the industrial world feel little pressure to begin one.

Soviet Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Final Phase

1992 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Webber
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Soviet Policy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Gorbachev Era

The transformation of Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev era was truly seismic in nature. Re-evaluations were effected in all areas of policy, resulting, most visibly, in the fundamental reordering of relations with the United States and fellow N.A.T.O. countries, and the demise of the Warsaw Pact and communist régimes in Eastern Europe. Equally sweeping were alterations in approach to the Third World and, more specifically, sub-saharan Africa, where changes in policy Soviet retreat.

The Anthropocene and the Triumph of the Imagination: An Environmental Perspective on C. A. Bayly's Remaking the Modern World, 1900–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Amrith
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Global History ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian History ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Progressive Course

Having had the privilege of being taught by Chris Bayly as an undergraduate, I can hear Remaking the Modern World in his voice. I can hear it in the form of the dazzling lectures—never showy, but perspective-shifting week after week—that were the kernels from which this book and its predecessor on the nineteenth century both grew. In the late 1990s, that course was still called “The West and the Third World since 1914.” Notwithstanding its then already outmoded title, it was a progressive course: a perspective on global history building out from the detailed study of South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. It was clear even then that Bayly's long immersion in the study of Indian history was not incidental but rather vital to Bayly, the global historian.

Food Insecurity and Foreign-Exchange Constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa

1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Kirkpatrick ◽  
Dimitris Diakosavvas
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Third World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Made In

The problem of food insecurity in less-developed countries (L.D.C.s) continues to demand the attention of the international community. Despite the progress that has been made in increasing the world's production of cereals and other major foodstuffs, many L.D.C.s continue to face immense difficulties in ensuring an adequate level of food supplies on a regular year-to-year basis. The current African food crisis has once again demonstrated the vulnerability of low-income economies to a sudden shortfall in supplies, and has highlighted the need for additional measures to strengthen food security in the Third World.

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