Part 1 Development Problems and Issues: The Economic Crisis in Africa - an Analytical Perspective on its Origins and Nature; Growth, Unemployment and Poverty in Botswana; Urbanisation and Urban Management in Africa; The Subterranean Economy in Developing Societies - the Evidence from Africa; The Socio-Economic Context of AIDS in Africa; Bureaucratic Corruption in Africa - Causes and Consequences. Part 2 Toward Policy Reform and Change: Development Policy and the Poor - Toward an Alternative Policy Framework for Africa; Structural Adjustment Programmes as Policy Reform - an Assessment of Their Objectives and Impact in the SADC Countries; Managing Development Policy in Botswana - Implementing Reforms for Rapid Change; Controlling Bureaucratic Corruption in Africa; Decentralisation, the New Public Administration and the Changing Role of the Public Sector in Africa; The Challenge of Policy Reform and Change in Africa.