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Donor Support for Textbooks in Africa

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Shobhana Sosale (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 115-122
"Analyzes the impact of donor support for book purchases on both the education systems and the domestic publishing industry. The author (formerly with the British Council in Lagos) identifies a number of positive impacts of textbook donation programmes, and suggests ways of improving the delivery of ... more

Toward Literate Societies: Publishing in Local Languages

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Shobhana Sosale (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 24-33
"An analysis of publishing in African languages in four countries of francophone Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal), where the Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (German Foundation for International Development, now part of GIZ), in cooperation with other agencies, has be ... more

Donor Support for Book Imports

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Shobhana Sosale (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 106-114
"Examines the question of aid for book imports in the francophone region of Africa, and takes a critical look at some current strategies for aid schemes in terms of their effectiveness and cost-efficiency." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2245)

A Global Partnership Experience: EDICEF in Cameroon

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Shobhana Sosale (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 180-185
"The partnership between EDICEF (part of the French Hachette Group) and Edition CLE of Yaoundé in Cameroon is used to draw general conclusions about publishing partnerships between industrial and developing countries, examining which aspects work and those that are rendered difficult by the intrins ... more
"This is something of a benchmark volume on the subject of publishing and book development in Africa (and in some other developing countries). It contains the proceedings, and reflects the thinking and the deliberations that emerged from a seminar on“Understanding the Educational Book Industry”, ... more