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Working Paper 40 - Industrial Restructuring in Africa During the1990s: Outcomes and Prospects
No full textSince the advent of political independence, many governments in Africa have looked to themanufacturing sector as the main vehicle of structural transformation and reduction of dependenceon primary exports. However, it is now generally accepted that “misguided attempts to promoteindustrialisation without regard to comparative advantage or stage of development have led toinefficient use of resources in many countries” (World Bank, 1992:122). During the 1970s, almostone-third of African countries had negative average annual rates of manufacturing output growthand, in another quarter, these growth rates stagnated at below 2.5 percent. An important objective of the economic reform programmes that are currently being pursuedin almost all African countries is to eliminate the “inefficient use of resources” by industrial enterprises.It is clear that the industrial sector in most African countries is being profoundly affected by thisprocess of reform which has accelerated markedly during the 1990s. However, there has beenremarkably little independent analysis of just how successful industrial restructuring in Africa hasbeen. Two reviews of structural adjustment programmes undertaken by the World Bank in 1992and 1994 concluded that industrial restructuring had been successful in the majority of countriesunder scrutiny and that this was particularly so among those countries that had most consistentlypursued comprehensive macroeconomic reforms (see World Bank, 1992a and 1994). But othereconomists outside of the World Bank have been less sanguine and some have argued that “structuraladjustment programmes damage the prospects for industrialisation” (Stoneman, 1994:104) andmay, in fact, be leading to wholesale de-industrialisation.The purpose of this paper is to review the industrial performance of African economies duringthe 1990s and to then discuss the principal reasons why this performance, particularly with respectto the manufacturing sector, continues to be so poor in the majority of countries. The discussion willbe structured as follows. Section 1 outlines the broad objectives of industrial restructuring as thesehave been interpreted by the World Bank. Section 2 addresses the weaknesses of the main datasources that are generally relied upon in assessing the industrial sector. Section 3 reviews theperformance of the industrial sector, looking specifically at the following indicators: output growth,share of GDP, the sectoral composition of output, private and foreign investment, exports, andemployment and training. Section 4 then analyses the principal factors that have affected theperformance of the industrial sector, focusing in particular on investment, exports, and productivity.Finally, in Section 5, the prospects for the industrial sector and the role of government policy arebriefly considered.
Linkage analysis in cases of serial burglary : comparing the performance of university students, police professionals, and a logistic regression model
No full textUniversity students, police professionals, and a logistic regression model were provided with information on 38 pairs of burglaries, 20% of which were committed by the same offender, in order to examine their ability to accurately identify linked serial burglaries. For each offense pair, the information included: (1) the offense locations as points on a map, (2) the distance (in km) between the two offenses, (3) entry methods, (4) target characteristics, and (5) property stolen. Half of the participants received training informing them that the likelihood of two offenses being committed by the same offender increases as the distance between the offenses decreases. Results showed that students outperformed police professionals, that training increased decision accuracy, and that the logistic regression model achieved the highest rate of success. Potential explanations for these results are presented, focusing primarily on the participants' use of offense information, and their implications are discussed
Conversations with Paul Auster
No full textInterviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies.Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Translation -- Interview with Paul Auster -- An Interview with Paul Auster -- Memory's Escape-Inventing the Music of Chance: A Conversation with Paul Auster -- The Making of Smoke -- The Manuscript in the Book: A Conversation -- An Interview with Paul Auster -- The Futurist Radio Hour: An Interview with Paul Auster -- Paul Auster: Writer and Director -- Off the Page: Paul Auster -- Paul Auster: The Art of Fiction -- Jonathan Lethem Talks with Paul Auster -- A Conversation with Paul Auster -- The Making of The Inner Life of Martin Frost -- Interview: Paul Auster -- A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster -- Interview: Paul Auster on His New Novel, Invisible -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZInterviews with the author of The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, and The Brooklyn Follies.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Portrait of Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011 /
No full textTitle from nformation supplied by photographer.; Part of the collection: Podcast photograph of author Paul Ham at the National Library of Australia, 15 November 2011.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author, Dr. Paul Wehr. c. 1980
No full textDr. Paul Wehr, as he appeared c. 1980. Dr. Wehr was a professor of history at UCF and the author of Like a Mustard Seed: the Slavia Settlement (1982 - Mickler Publishing House), a history of the early years of Slavia and St. Luke\u27s history.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-images/1413/thumbnail.jp
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
The British ‘Bluesman’ Paul Oliver and the Nature of Transatlantic Blues Scholarship
No full textRecent revisionist studies have argued that much of what is known about music known as the blues’ has been 'invented' by the writing of enthusiasts far removed from the African American culture that created the music. Elijah Wald and Marybeth Hamilton in particular have attempted to sift through the clouds of romanticism, and tried to unveil more empirical histories that were previously obscured by the fallacious genre distinctions conjured up during the 1960s blues revival. While this revisionist scholarship has shed light on some previously ignored historical facts, writers have tended to concentrate on the romanticism of blues writing strictly from an American perspective, failing to acknowledge the genesis and influence of transatlantic scholarship, and therefore ignoring the work of the most prolific and influential blues scholar of the twentieth century, British writer Paul Oliver. By examining the core of Oliver’s research and writing during the 1950s and 1960s, this study aims to place Oliver in his rightful place at the centre of blues historiography. His scholarship allows a more detailed appreciation of the manner in which the blues was studied, through lyrics, recordings, oral histories, photography and African American literature. These historical sources were interpreted in accordance with the author’s attitudes to the commercial popular music, which allowed the ‘reconstruction’ of an African American ‘folk’ culture in which the blues became the antithesis of pop. Importantly, this study seeks to transcend dominant discourses of national cultural ownership or ethnocentrism, and demonstrate that representations of African American music and culture were constructed within a transatlantic context. The blues is music with roots in the African American experience within the United States; however, as Paul Oliver’s writing shows, its reception and representation were not limited by the same national, cultural or racial boundaries
Training for Self-employment? The Performance of Rural Training Centres in Zimbabwe
No full textIn common with most other developing countries, youth unemployment in Zimbabwe has reached crisis proportions. While the extent of the problem is not known precisely, it would appear that no more than one-third of the country's school-leavers found jobs in the formal sector of the economy during the late 19B0s (See Bennell and Ncube, 1991). Faced with this situation, the Government of Zimbabwe has introduced various policies which collectively seek to improve employment opportunities in the rural areas of the country where seventy percent of the population continue to live.1 This process of rural development aims not only to raise the productivity and thus household incomes of peasant (smallholder) farmers but also focuses on the employment needs cf the forty percent of the rural population who are engaged in numerous non-farm activities
[Memo by Paul Tsuneishi, January 19, 1998]
No full textA memo by Paul Tsuneishi offering both humorous and apparently serious explanations of the work of that Friends of Michi (FOM) is doing.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Jersey Homesteads -- A Triple Co-operative
No full textChapter 11, pages 256-276, of
Title: "Tomorrow a new world: the New Deal communuity program."
Publisher: Ithaca, NY, Published for the American Historical Association (by) Cornell University Press, 1959.
Author; Conkin, Paul Keith
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