After two decades of economic reform programmes, the majority of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa still face the challenge of renewing the development progress that they were achieving in the 1960s and early 1970s. Promising beginnings in the post-independence countries ended in economic collapse in the 1980s. This led to stabilization and structural adjustment reforms, but these have had disappointing results in most of the countries that applied them. In addition, local scale inter-country conflicts and internal strife within the region and post-war complications have generated new problems. This volume reviews the ensuing debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. A foundation is laid for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components are prioritized according to each country's constraints and opportunities.