Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced substantial growth and poverty reduction in the past two decades, yet as this process has not been based on industrialisation it is unlikely that it is sustainable in the longer term. Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa should consider structuralist industrial...

With the advent of the African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), regional economic integration in Africa has captured international attention and raised high hopes. In the new book "Regional Integration, Trade and Industry in Africa", the present state of economic integration on the continent...

On request of its Executive Directors, the World Bank rolled out, in later summer 2005, how it envisages implementing decisions, in particular those taken in Gleneagles, on raising official development assistance (ODA) to Africa. The result is the Africa Action Plan (AAP) and, as of February...

Auf Anforderung ihres Direktoriums hat die Weltbank im Spätsommer 2005 dargelegt, wie sie sich die Umsetzung der Beschlüsse besonders von Gleneagles zur Erhöhung der Entwicklungshilfe vorstellt. Das Ergebnis sind der Africa Action Plan (AAP) und seit Februar 2006 der Africa Catalytic Growth...

With the advent of the African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), regional economic integration in Africa has captured international attention and raised high hopes. In the new book "Regional Integration, Trade and Industry in Africa", the present state of economic integration on the continent...

Abstract European trade policy with Africa is in deep trouble. We observe a triple policy failure. (1) The EU tries to draw African partner countries into comprehensive deep integration agreements, far more than these countries can arguably support. (2) For trade in goods, safeguard clauses in...

I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the...

The literature suggests that in developing countries illness shocks at the household level can have a negative and severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a...