In this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope. What is needed is an interdisciplinary political economy study to investigate the ways ...

In this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope. What is needed is an interdisciplinary political economy study to investigate the ways ...

<p>Contents: Merchantisation of Production and Privatisation of Development in Post-Ujamaa Tanzania: An Introduction / Peter Gibbon -- The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth but not the Mining Rights: The Mining Industry and Accumulation in Tanzania / Chachage Seithy L. Chachage -- When the State Withdraws: Local Development, Politics and Liberalisation in Tanzania / And...

A critical investigation of the expanding involvement of a leading emerging power, Brazil, in one of Africa's fastest growing economies, Mozambique, this book focuses on the dynamics of Brazilian development assistance, its flagship engagement in Mozambican agricultural and resource sector and the burgeoning social ties that bind them together. With elites in Brazi...

As one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa, in 1991 Zambia experienced  a peaceful transition to multi-party rule. The new government, Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), also committed itself to implementing an economic reform programme. The international donor community in turn generously rewarded the new government’s commitment to both political an...