The Review of Black Political Economy articles from March 1999

The Review of Black Political Economy archives from March 1999

Biographical Sketch of Alfred L. Edwards.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Dr. Alfred L. Edwards earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina and completed his Masters Degree in Economics at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received his...

21ST CENTURY POLLINATION: FEDERAL HOUSING AND HEALTH POLICIES.
March 22, 1999... The interactiveness between housing and health has been known since the late 1800s, when it was discovered that infectious diseases easily spread among persons living in crowded tenements. [1] Although this awareness has spawned debate about...

BLACK INFANT HEALTH: WHERE TO IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION Edward H. Beardsley, a medical historian, opens his book, A History of Neglect, with a quote from a passage by G. H. Kimball in his report to the North Carolina Board of Health: It is bad enough that a man should be...

ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES: FROM AN ECONOMIC UNION TO A PEACEKEEPING MISSION?
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION African countries were not part of that great industrial revolution of the eighteenth century that spawned the process of modernization and industrialization in western Europe and North America. [1] Indeed, they were colonies...

DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS AND POLICY FOR AFRICA: STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND BEYOND.
March 22, 1999... INTRODUCTION In most of Africa, post-independence development policy was formulated through a statist ideological framework, which was then implemented by experimentation. That produced disastrous results. Among other things, poverty and...