After fluctuating greatly in the past few years, food and oil prices have recently returned to
historically high levels. According to the World Bank (2011), food prices in late 2010 and …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa was significantly affected by the global food and economic
crises of the late 2000s, with the continent suffering pronounced negative impacts on many …

Africa in the 1990s remains in crisis. There is some evidence of recovery from a decade or
more of economic turmoil and stagnation. Nonetheless, most countries in sub-Saharan …

This paper outlines the impact of the global economic crisis on Africa. Recovery requires
coordinated and consistent efforts to assist individual countries in mitigating (reducing) the …

Government action during food crises in southern Africa frequently exacerbates the
problems, driving food staple prices well beyond import parity. We argue that an inability to …

Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten
the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. This …

The ten case studies in this book together present a comprehensive pic¬ ture of African
economies in crisis. Broadly dichotomizing Africa's post¬ independence economic …

This paper addresses the magnitude and implications of food price changes in national and
regional markets in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) with a view to provide the evidence …

The global financial and economic crisis, which hit Africa with a lag, has caused serious
setbacks to the continent's growth momentum and likely jeopardized hard‐won development …

Historically, the state has played a leading role in using crises to spur social and economic
change. This chapter draws lessons from different countries' experiences of responding to …