Title Sorting Africa's development puzzle : the participatory social learning theory as an alternative approach / Almaz Zewde

Published Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) : illustrations Contents Selected Development Theories: Some Post-World War II Theoretical Contests -- The Alternative Development Theory: The Participatory Social Learning Development Theory and Model for Africa -- The Institutional Imperative: Its Condition in Africa and Implications for Development -- The Human Resource Imperative -- The Resource Imperative: Natural and Man-enhanced Resources for Development -- The Technology Imperative -- The Investment Capital Imperative -- Putting Together the Development Puzzle: The Participatory Social Learning Paradigm and the Five Development Imperatives in Practice: Case Studies -- African Women: The Continent's Undervalued and Overworked Development Assets -- Looking Ahead: Some After Thoughts Summary "Sorting Africa's Development Puzzle: The Participatory Social Learning Theory as an Alternative Approach is a comprehensive exploration of why Africa has not managed to achieve a sustainable and self-regenerating development over the past half-century of effort. The work situates the problems of Africa's persistent underdevelopment in the practices employed by national political elites, donors, and lenders to African development that played roles in determinant policy and planning. Unlike many newly developed countries and regions, and contrary to the historical experiences of developed countries where ordinary people were full stakeholders and drivers of development, Africa's development has been top-down, expert and capital driven, mechanical, and typically externally designed. Ordinary Africans were made marginal to development. This approach to Africa's development was devoid of building the people and their institutions as the legitimate means of development. The entrusting of Africa's development to local and international elites to the exclusion of the people from decision-making and full participation, has led to grievous deficits in the formation of human and social capital, and legitimate economic, social, and political institutions for development. The book offers a studied alternative that can positively change Africa's development direction - The Participatory Social Learning Approach. The philosophical, theoretical, historical and heuristic origins of this alternative are offered in detail within this book"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Economic development -- Social aspects -- Africa Sustainable development -- Social aspects -- Africa POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. Economic development -- Social aspects Economic history Economic policy -- Social aspects Sustainable development -- Social aspects SUBJECT Africa -- Economic policy -- Social aspects Africa -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001548 Subject Africa Form Electronic book ISBN 9780761849070 0761849076 9780761849087 0761849084

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