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Scarcity, Choice, and Public Policy in Middle Africa by Donald Rothchild, Robert L. Curry, Curry, Robert L., Jr is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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New challenges and opportunities have come to the fore as the middle African States have consolidated their independence. In grappling with economic scarcity and restricted choice, decision-makers must transform domestic institutions and practices and reformulate their relationship to the global economy. The authors of this book believe that their efforts can be advanced by resorting to a problem-solving focus. Such an approach will, in their opinion. allow social scientists to remain true to their professional disciplines while permitting them to embrace African-designated objectives. By inquiring into decision processes and results, policy analysis seeks to identify optimal courses of action in the context of prevailing societal demands and constraints. In general, African decision-makers have adopted three choice strategies with an eye to reducing scarcity and expanding alternatives: accommodation, reorganization, and transformation. When these choice strategies are related to system goals, striking variations in preferences and priorities emerge, the most significant of which concern decision on mobilizing and distributing resources and achieving freedom from external control.

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Author

Donald Rothchild, Robert L. Curry, Curry, Robert L., Jr

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520033788

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Economics, Political Science