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Overwhelmed by a proliferation of foreign aid programs, the U.S. government is attempting to reorganize itself in order to manage them more effectively.

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This collection of articles concerning the economic development of Africa was written by a group of scholars who are experienced in African societies and are knowledgeable about African needs. The work is addressed to scholars, researchers, and teachers interested in African development in the North American market and elsewhere.

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Basic information is provided on how contribution programs can be used in community-based development with satisfying results for all. For companies and foundations which have limited resources, but have a desire to participate, several techniques of indirect investments in social development are shown.

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This work examines the practical impact of economics and economic ideology on the Third World. Gondwe argues that the scientific and technical veil covering economics reduces its capacity to affect current and future economic problems.

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Explains how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial problems by conducting year-long interviews with impoverished villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa - records that track penny by penny how specific households manage their money.

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This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. Carol Graham examines the effects of market-based strategies on the performance of public institutions, the political sustainability of market reforms, and equity.

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Privatization and capital markets support and reinforce each other to promote economic growth around the world. This work discusses the links between privatization and capital markets, and provides insights for policy makers in developing countries and the international donor agencies.

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This is a guide to the privatization of industry, agriculture and services provided by governments in the developing world. The handbook intends to enable officials of these states to initiate privatization strategies and to develop their own plans with the help of local civil servants.

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Experts from inside and outside the USAID program evaluate the effectiveness of governmental intervention aimed at ensuring adequate agricultural production and food security in Third-World nations.

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Nine world-class experts on the African economy share their knowledge regarding the potential for real improvement and growth in food production and the development of grassroots economies that will benefit citizens as well as governments.

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Looks at the role of economic and industrial policy in East Asian development, the challenge of the economic meltdown, and the critical issues raised by that meltdown.

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For many aspects of how our countries are run - from social security and fair elections to communication, and the rule of law - technology can play an increasingly positive, revolutionary role. In this book, the authors argue that technology can reshape our lives, in both the developing and developed world, and shows how this can be achieved.

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Although political developments in Central America over the last decade have been profound, the region continues to exhibit sluggish economic growth in some countries and complete stagnation in others. and 6) the prospects for regional economic and political integration.

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A radical and comprehensive review of the practices of governance within one of the world's most important and influential organizations.

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This book takes a detailed look at the key paradigms of orthodox development thinking, discusses various theories about economic growth, and concludes that the myths of orthodox development thinking regarding the origins of and obstacles to economic growth and human factor decay, are the cause of economic underdevelopment in developing countries.

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Critically reappraises ideas about learning and development advanced by Albert O. Hirschman in the 1950s and 1960s. The essays - prepared for an MIT faculty seminar - show how these innovative ideas bear on the theory, policy, and practice of development in the 1990s.

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Based on hitherto classified government documents and interviews with many of the key decision-makers, the author examines the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada's (PRG) economic successes and failures during its four and one-half year reign.

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Presenting a framework that considers the ways that neocolonial relations, gender, class, ethnicity, and other dimensions of oppression intersect to impact upon the experiences and agency of women and children, authors explore the effects of water and sanitation quality and availability on early childhood morbidity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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A set of three chapters explore the results of the survey data, detailing the perceptions of the Saudi private business sector, comparing business and government perceptions, and finally, evaluating the effect of communications, expectations, and perceptions on the government-business relationship.