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Title West African worlds : paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods, and development / edited by Reginald Cline-Cole and Elsbeth Robson
Published Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages : illustrations, map.). :
Series DARG regional development series ; no. 6
DARG regional development series ; no. 6.
Contents Paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development in West African worlds / Reginald Cline-Cole -- Regional political economy : retrospect and prospect / Adebayo Olukoshi -- Portraying West Africa's children : moral panics, imagined geographies and globalization / Elsbeth Robson -- Fictional worlds in struggles over West African (under- )development? : Kolawole Omotoso's The combat / Abioseh Michael Porter -- Urban bias, redistribution, and state collapse : the lessons of Sierra Leone / J. Barry Riddell -- Expanding the frontiers of integration : regional economic and security dynamics / David J. Francis -- Transformations in regional agriculture and family farming / Camilla Toulmin and Bara Guèye -- The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement : 'Social Capital' and targeted development / Fergus Lyon and Gina Porter -- Work, time and space : Britain and West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ken Swindell -- State-building, national integration, gender and economic development in emergent regional democracies / Jimmy D. Kandeh and Joyce A. Kannan -- Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso / Simon P.J. Batterbury
Notes At head of title: Developing Areas Research Group, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Economic development -- Social aspects -- Africa, West
Economic development -- Social aspects
Economic history
Social conditions
SUBJECT Africa, West -- Economic conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001702
Africa, West -- Social conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001713
Subject West Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Cline-Cole, R. A
Robson, Elsbeth
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). Developing Areas Research Group.
ISBN 9781317904939
1317904931