Table of Contents
Part I: Dimensions and Assessments of Poverty Reduction Policies and Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
1. Poverty in Post-colonial Africa: The Legacy of Contested Perspectives
2. Scaling up Power Infrastructure Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa for Poverty Alleviation
3. The Impact of Anti-Corruption Conventions in Sub-Saharan Africa
4. The Besieged Continent: Interrogating Contemporary Issues of Corruption and Poverty in Africa
5. PEPFAR and Preventing HIV Transmission: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
6. Reflections on the Current Challenges of Poverty Reduction in Africa
7. A Critical Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategies in Post-Colonial Africa
Part II: Problems of Good Governance and Institutional Failures in West-Africa
8. Weaknesses and Failures of Poverty Reduction Policies and Programs in Nigeria since 1960
9. In the Web of Neo¬-Liberalism and Deepening Contradictions? Assessing Poverty Reform Strategies in West Africa Since the Mid-1980s
10. An Assessment of Abuse of the elderly as an Aspect of Poverty in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria
11. Reflections on the Interface between Poverty and Food Insecurity in Nigeria
12. An Appraisal of Poverty Reduction Program in Bayelsa State of Nigeria: “In- Care of the People” (COPE)
13. A Comparative Analysis of Incidence of Poverty in Three Urban Centers in Ghana from 1945-1990
Part III: Dimensions of Poverty in East and Southern Africa
14. Landlessness, National Politics, and the Future of Land Reforms in Kenya
15. Extra-version and Development in northwestern Ethiopia: The Case of the Humera Agricultural Project (1967-1975)
16. Affirmative Action as a Theological-Pastoral Challenge in the South-African Democratic Context