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Rapid urbanization, as well as being an enormous challenge, also offers great opportunity as investment in housing and the provision of shelter is potentially one of the most effective drivers of economic growth and sustainable national development. This book presents an account of the role of housing in economic growth and development.

This paper is part of a study on incentives and rural development in Tanzania being undertaken by ERB. Being a preliminary study on village projects, the paper is both descriptive and analytical. The main part of the paper goes into details of the communal farm taking up aspects like product mix, size, planning etc.. The aim is to establish some managerial problems on which broad policy recommendations and suggestions for improvement shall be made

The volume consists of papers presented at a conference titled, "Sustainable Development, Governance and Globalisation: An African Forum for Strategic Thinking Towards the Earth Summit 2002 and Beyond", which was held in Nairobi in September 2001. It also contains the resulting policy proposals and recommendations formulated by the participants coming from all sectors of society. The goal of the conference was to enable African intellectuals to have an input and impact at the Earth Summit 2002 in Johannesburg at preparatory meetings organised prior to the Summit. Contributors gave multidimensional perspectives on how governance and globalisation have affected the continent and developed values to guide sustainable development amidst the new realities, highlighting the major policy issues as well as addressing and outlining the strategy choices or available alternative actions, and their associated payoffs. (DÜI-Sbd)