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Introduction -- I. The relevance of Africa in a multipolar and decentralized system -- II. Turkey-Africa relations: a historical perspective -- III. Turkish rapprochement to Sub-Saharan Africa (2002-11) -- IV. The Somali crisis and the emergence of Turkey's humanitarian oriented policy -- V. Turkey's way for development: the Ankara consensus -- VI. Operationalizing Turkey's multitrack policy -- VII. The Gülen movement in Africa: from Turkish transnational assets to anti-state lobby -- Conclusions.

Virtually all countries in the world are struggling to provide the necessary resources to Higher Education. The challenges are particularly complex for economically poor countries in Africa, which have recorded massive expansion in the past decade. This book analyzes the state of funding and financing higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Book Overview -- PART I OVERVIEW OF THE ISSUE -- 1 AIDS-Related Vulnerability among Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview -- PART II THE LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF ORPHANED AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN SUB-SAHARAΝ AFRICA -- 2 Fostered Children in Botswana -- 3 Experiences of Children in Residential Care: The Case of Kenya -- 4 The Living Arrangements of Vulnerable Children in Zambia -- PART III RESPONDING TO ORPHANED AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN: AN OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INITIATIVES -- 5 Responses to Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in Botswana -- 6 Responding to Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Kenya -- 7 Responding to Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Zambia -- PART IV THE VOICES OF THE CHILDREN -- 8 Children Speak Out: Is Anyone Listening? -- PART V MAKING CHILDREN MATTER -- 9 Vulnerability among Children and the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 10 Conclusion: Closing Thoughts -- Appendix A: Questionnaire -- Index.

In this sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the open economies of Sub-Saharan Africa, Jean-Paul Azam analyses international trade, exchange rate issues, and longer-term growth, taking due account of the distinctive features of African economies. In particular, he examines the informal as well as the formal institutional frameworks which prevail in different African countries and which affect their macroeconomic behaviour. Key issues explored include tariffs and quotas, membership of the CFA Zone, and currency convertibility or inconvertibility, as well as smuggling, corruption, parallel markets in goods and currencies, ethnic diversity and redistribution. Case studies of important macroeconomic events are used to establish basic stylized facts from which the theory emerges, and special attention is paid to the consequences of macroeconomic events for the poor, via the food market or traditional redistribution mechanisms

Today, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the HIV/AIDS pandemic is creating millions of AIDS orphans who languish away in orphanages that lack the resources to take care of them. Millions of other children are living on the streets, trying to survive on their own, le

An analysis of recent data on the economic behavior of market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, with implications for future research and current policy.In Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Marcel Fafchamps synthesizes the results of recent surveys of indigenous market institutions in twelve countries, including Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and presents findings about economics exchange in Africa that have implications both for future research and current policy. Employing empirical data as well as theoretical models that clarify the data, Fafchamps takes as his unifying principle the difficulties of contract enforcement. Arguing that in an unpredictable world contracts are not always likely to be respected, he shows that contract agreements in sub-Saharan Africa are affected by the absence of large hierarchies (both corporate and governmental) and as a result must depend to a greater degree than in more developed economies on social networks and personal trust. Fafchamps considers policy recommendations as they apply to countries in three different stages of development: countries with undeveloped market institutions, like Ghana; countries at an intermediate stage, like Kenya; and countries with developed market institutions, like Zimbabwe.Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa caps ten years of personal research by the author. Fafchamps, in collaboration with such institutions as the Africa Division of the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute, participated in the surveys of manufacturing firms and agricultural traders that provide the empirical basis for the book. The result is a work that makes a significant contribution to research on the continuing economic stagnation of many countries in sub-Saharan Africa and is also largely accessible to researchers in other fields and policy professionals.

This paper documents cyclical patterns of government expenditures in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970 and explains variation between countries and over time. Controlling for endogeneity, it finds government expenditures to be slightly more procyclical in sub-Saharan Africa than in other developing countries and some evidence that procyclicality in Africa has declined in recent years after a period of sharp increase through the 1990s. Greater fiscal space, proxied by lower external debt, and better access to concessional financing, proxied by larger aid flows, seem to be important factors in dimin

The research results point to the need of sustaining plant protein sources to large populations in sub-Saharan Africa that have no access to meat. Proteins are essential components of the human body and therefore indispensable for human life. Malnutrition and diseases are often caused because of the lack of sufficient proteins. Since animal sources of protein are out of reach to more than 85% of the people of sub-Saharan Africa, the challenge is to make protein otherwise accessible, available and affordable to the ordinary man. Owing to the influence of climate change and population explosion

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: External Debt -- 2. Macroeconomic Approach to External Debt: The Case of Nigeria -- 3. Ghana: The Burden of Debt-Service Payment Under Structural Adjustment -- 4. Growth and Foreign Debt: The Ugandan Experience -- 5. The External Debt Problem of Kenya -- 6. An Econometric Analysis of External Debt and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan African Countries -- Part II: Capital Flight -- 7. Capital Flight and External Debt in Nigeria -- 8. Capital Flight from Uganda, 1997-94 -- 9. Capital Flight from Tanzania -- 10. Capital Flight in Kenya -- Contributors.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- About the author -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 1. Introduction and recent economic developments -- 2. External trends -- Trade, regional co-operation and south-south linkages -- Aid, foreign debt and investment -- 3. Internal trends -- Governance, parastatal organizations, the business environment and the informal sector -- Civil strife -- Health, population and education -- The natural environment and climate change -- Physical infrastructure, the structure of the economies and employment -- Agriculture, food security and the urban bias -- 4. The way forward: A transformation? -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.