Includes index.

Introduction: Africa in changing perspective -- Section A: Analysing the African experience -- Dimensions of development : geography, ecology, history -- Concepts of African economic development : growth, structural change, poverty and gender -- Development theories, political economy and governance -- Economic institutions and planning for development -- Section B: Human resources in Africa -- Demography -- Income distribution and human needs -- Human development : education and health -- Labour and livelihoods, formal and informal -- Urbanization, migration and regional change -- Section C: Sustaining African economic development -- Environment and climate change -- Agriculture and rural development -- Natural resources and African development -- The industrial sector -- Infrastructure, communications, services and tourism -- Macroeconomic management, debt and structural adjustment plans -- Section D: Africa and the international economy -- Trade and economic development -- Multinational corporations and foreign direct investment -- Development assistance : the African record -- The changing role of China in Africa -- International migration.