Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 293 pages : illustrations, map.). : |
Series |
DARG regional development series ; no. 6 |
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DARG regional development series ; no. 6.
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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
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Economic development -- Social aspects
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
Africa, West -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001702
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Africa, West -- Social conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001713
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Subject |
West Africa
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cline-Cole, R. A
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Robson, Elsbeth
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Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). Developing Areas Research Group.
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ISBN |
9781317904939 |
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1317904931 |
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