Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Capital Theory and Development: Has Africa been Overlooked?; 3. Towards an Analytical Policy Framework for Assessing Capacity Innovation: A Standalone African Perspective; 4. Top Down - Bottom Up Capacity Innovation; 5. The Country Capacity ID; 6. Africa-MNC Strategic Alliance; 7. Path to Capacity Innovation: An Africa-MNC Strategic Alliance; 8. African Continental Security Apparatus: Accommodating FDI; 9. Epilogue; Appendix; Index

About the Author

Benjamin F. Bobo is a professor of finance, College of Business Administration, Loyola Marymount University where he teaches finance at the undergraduate level and international economic strategy and trade policy in the graduate program. He has held faculty posts at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Riverside and has served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research (Acting) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. He has headed U.S. delegations to the former Soviet Union, Switzerland, Greece, Mexico and Canada. Dr. Bobo has implemented U.S. policy on international housing technology and has served as Co-Chair of Joint Steering Committees of U.S. bilateral agreements. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of Commerce and to private firms, and engaged business development activities in Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. He has published extensively on Third World development; his research focuses on life-choice constraints of the economically disadvantaged.