Efforts to get Sub-Saharan Africa back into the world economy through internationally-backed reforms have largely failed due to lack of institutions, suitable local conditions or ability to negotiate effectively for foreign aid. Powerful interests or dominant communities distorted attempts at...

1. Overview of urban development in Africa / Albert Mafusire Nadege Desiree Yameogo and Mthulincube -- 2. Cities as drivers of development / Ivan Turok --3. Institutions, decentralisation and urban development / Edgar Pieterse and Warren Smit --4. Financing urban development in Africa / Beacon...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely...

The authors address the question of infrastructure reforms in a novel way by focusing on the impact which they can have on consumers through the prices paid by different groups and on their access to the networks. They analyse original material from four Latin American countries - Argentina,...