Regional disparity in sub-Saharan Africa : (Record no. 7850)

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International Standard Book Number 813377331
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Classification number HC 800 .M44 1989
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Personal name Mehretu, Assefa
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Title Regional disparity in sub-Saharan Africa :
Remainder of title structural readjustment of uneven development /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Assefa Mehretu
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Boulder :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Westview Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c1989
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Extent xiii, 202 pages :
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Dimensions 23 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references.
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Formatted contents note 1. The Nature of the African Development -- 2. Structural Hegemony in the Economic Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa -- 3. Structural Hegemony and Ecological Constraints in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 4. Fundamentals of Structural Hegemony: Theoretical Issues for Spatial Readjustment -- 5. Empirical Regularities of Structural Hegemony: The Economic Geography of the Postcolonial State in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 6. Approaches to Structural Readjustment and Development Planning.
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Summary, etc. This is an outcome of research on African development from the standpoint i economic geography which I have been undertaking over the last four years. The initial impetus for the research was a social science grant from the Rockefeller Foundation which enabled me to write most of the preliminary draft of the book during a sabbatical in 1934/85 which I spent at the University of Zimbabwe as Visiting Professor of Geography. A good deal of the latter part of the book was written in September of 1985 at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, where I spent three weeks as a member of the Reflections on Development Fellows of the Foundation from Africa and Asia. My principal objective in this work is to highlight and reflect on the principal socio spatial constraints to development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that have been largely ignored by development research and planning. The work especially tries to draw attention to postcolonial anti-development biases in spatial form and process whose combined impact on patterns of production and distribution I have referred to as structural hegemony. I have used structural hegemony as a systemic construct to encompass social and spatial factors of control and domination that collectively militate against equity in political participation, access to opportunities for development, and free enterprise in competitive markets. My use of the term structural hegemony is not limited to characterize postcolonial biases and distortions connected with the imperfections of the neoclassical framework. It is also intended to include all' non-democratic forms of regimentation, especially those that emanate from totalitarian regimes in so-called socialist states in Sub-Saharan Africa. The worsening spatial polarity in levels of living between primate cities and rural hinterlands in Sub-Saharan Africa is attributed to structural hegemony exercised by typical core characteristics in postcolonial states to the detriment of the majority in the countryside. I have argued that once the effect of distance decay has been accounted for, the remaining unevenness in space of benefits from development in Sub-Saharan nations is more a function of structural hegemony than it is of competitive inequality in access to the means of production.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element AFRICA -- ECONOMIC CONDITION
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    Library of Congress Classification     Gen. Ed. - CBA LRC - Annex National University - Manila Relegation Room 06/02/2012 Reaccessioned   GC HC 800 .M44 1989 NULIB000005609 05/20/2025 c.1 05/20/2025 Books