Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa

Contents: Introduction: the role of ideas, theory and model of public policy process in Africa, Kelechi A. Kalu; Theoretical and Analytical Issues in Policy Making and Management in Africa: Public policy and the African environment: an examination of the theory and practice of the planning process on the continent, Valentine Udoh James; The state, macroeconomic performance and development in Africa, John Mukum Mbaku; Agenda setting: domestic and foreign policy in Africa, Kelechi A. Kalu; Public sector management policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Robert Dibie; From the margins to the center: ICTs as tools for development, Patience Idaraesit Akpan-Obong. Case Studies and Issues of Public Policy in Africa: Social factors relating to maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, Cynthia Theresa Cook; The role of women in Africa's economic development, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Andrea Merrick; Privatization policy, challenges and prospect(s) for sustainable development in Nigeria, Robert Dibie; Cameroon's endangered environment: economic policy and forest loss, Moses K. Tesi; The role of Non Governmetal Organizations in public policy in Africa, Andrew I. Ewoh; Reconstructing the State: constitutionalism as public policy in Africa, Julius O. Ihonvbere; Index.