Institutions and Agrarian Development: A New Approach to West Africa

by Paul Richards, Erwin Bulte, Maarten Voors

Book Overview

This book argues that development strategies have thus far failed in Western Africa because the many challenges afflicting the area have yet to be explored and understood from the perspective of institutional resources. With a particular focus on three countries on the bend of the Upper West African coast - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - this book offers a theory to account for the nature of these institutional elements, to test deductions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030075001
• ISBN13: 9783030075002
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"