Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa

Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.Mike O. Odey is a Professor of Economic History at Benue State University, Nigeria.

• Part I: Dimensions and Assessments of Poverty Reduction Policies and Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa1. Poverty in Post-colonial Africa: The Legacy of Contested Perspectives2. Scaling up Power Infrastructure Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa for Poverty Alleviation3. The Impact of Anti-Corruption Conventions in Sub-Saharan Africa4. The Besieged Continent: Interrogating Contemporary Issues of Corruption and Poverty in Africa5. PEPFAR and Preventing HIV Transmission: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 6. Reflections on the Current Challenges of Poverty Reduction in Africa7. A Critical Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategies in Post-Colonial AfricaPart II: Problems of Good Governance and Institutional Failures in West-Africa8. 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-1980s10. An Assessment of Abuse of the elderly as an Aspect of Poverty in Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria11. Reflections on the Interface between Poverty and Food Insecurity in Nigeria12. 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 Africa14. Landlessness, National Politics, and the Future of Land Reforms in Kenya15. 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