Dynamics and policy implications of the global reforms at the end of the second millennium / edited by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo -- Politics of constitutional reforms and democratization in Africa / Julius O. Ihonvbere -- The politics of linking educational research, policy, and practice: the case of improving educational quality in Ghana, Guatemala, and Mali / Mark Ginsburg, Don Adams, Thomas Clayton, Martha Mantilla, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan Wang -- Environmental reforms in the United States: policy and political implications, and economic and scientific arguments / Kent Klitgaard -- Neoliberal economic reforms and workers of the Third World at the end of the second millennium of the Christian era / Amiya Kumar Bagchi -- Educational and economic reforms, gender equity, and access to schooling in Africa / N'dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba -- Democratic local government and responsiveness: lessons from Zimbabwe and Tanzania / Arild Schou.