Income Distribution, Poverty, and Consumer Preferences in Cameroon

Income Distribution, Poverty, and Consumer Preferences in Cameroon
Author: Sarah G. Lynch
Publisher: Cornell Food & Nutrition Policy Programs
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1991
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Based on data from Cameroon's National Income Expenditure survey (EBC) conducted in 1983-84. Reviews the differences in socio-economic characteristics between northern and southern Cameroon.

Developing a Sustainable Economy in Cameroon

Developing a Sustainable Economy in Cameroon
Author: Ajab Amin
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2008-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 2869783922

Developing a Sustainable Economy in Cameroon is an ambitious effort as the authors try to set a blue print for Cameroon's economy. In the 1980s facing economic crisis, and as dictated by the structural adjustment programme, Cameroon sharply cut public investment expenditures before later cutting government consumption which were followed by privatisation, liquidation of public companies and reduction in the size of the public sector. All these measures are believed to have had devastating effects on the economy. Given the performance of the economy so far the authors suggest that much more effort, with a strong commitment of the main stakeholders, is required to guarantee sustainable economic development in Cameroon. Truly, very few countries in Africa possess such enormous human and natural resources as Cameroon does. This volume brings out the challenges Cameroon faces in its quest for development as well as for designing appropriate strategies for addressing those development challenges.

On the Postcolony

On the Postcolony
Author: Achille Mbembe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2001-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520917537

Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays—his first book to be published in English—develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article "Provisional Notes on the Postcolony," in which he developed his notion of the "banality of power" in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity — violence, wonder, and laughter — to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.

Aspects of Poverty and Inequality in Cameroon

Aspects of Poverty and Inequality in Cameroon
Author: Wokia-azi Ndangle Kumase
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9783631595350

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteat Geottingen, 2009.

Structural Adjustment Reconsidered

Structural Adjustment Reconsidered
Author: David E. Sahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1999-08-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521665131

In this 1998 study the authors isolate the effect of specific policy measures associated with adjustment programs in ten African countries.

Agricultural Marketing Directory for U.S. and Africa Trade

Agricultural Marketing Directory for U.S. and Africa Trade
Author: Mary E. Lassanyi
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1996
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 0788144790

This one-of-a-kind reference tool provides vital market & trade development information. Part I contains three separate sections: introduction, reference & contacts (describes the international & regional organizations, research centers, & financial institutions that facilitate international trade). Part II is divided into two groups of Sub-Saharan African countries: first & second tier; each group has an introductory overview, & information on exports & imports, on investment & trade barriers, & on the best prospects for U.S. investment & exports. Contacts & selected publications also are included.