Chapter 1: Domestication and Localization of Sustainable Development Goals in Africa -- Chapter 2:Effect of Shea Fruit Sugar Content on Shea Butter Quality -- Chapter 3: Some Theoretical and Policy Issues and Green Economy -- Chapter 4: Climate Change and Rapidly Evolving Pests and Diseases in...

In spite of massive flows over the past 50 years, aid has failed to have any significant impact on development. Marginalization from the world economy and increases in absolute poverty are causing countries to degenerate into failed, oppressive and, in some cases, dangerous states. To address...

This periodic review (roughly every five years) of the individual development co-operation efforts of Austria assesses the performance of Austria's programme, not just that of its development co-operation agency, and examines both policy and implementation. It takes an integrated, system-wide...

This book considers the impact of economic reforms on manufacturing performance and explores policy options for promoting manufacturing. Using country-specific case studies spanning Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America, the authors examine the evidence for and against both trade...

In this valuable new book, a distinguished group of authors takes stock of the existing state of knowledge in the field of finance and the development process. Each chapter offers a comprehensive survey and synthesis of current issues. These include such critical subjects as savings, financial...

Part I: General Background and Governing Issues -- Chapter 1: Why history is important in Africa’s economic development narrative -- Chapter 2: Economic development: Facts, theories and evidence -- Chapter 3: Case studies of development approaches -- Part II: European Growth and Development...

Part I: Overview -- 1. Introduction to the Handbook- Machiko Nissanke and Jose Antonio Ocampo -- 2. Critical Reflections on Globalisation and Development and Challenges Ahead- Machiko Nissanke and Jose Antonio Ocampo -- Part II: Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Development Economics -- 3....

1. Introduction -- 2. Foreign Aid Conditionality and Economic Growth -- 3. Types of Aid -- 4. An Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Approach to Examining Subnational Health -- 5. Evaluating Aid Agencies: Challenges, Comparisons, and Causes of Best Aid Practices -- 6. What Influences World...

Chapter 1: Background: Women and Work -- Chapter 2: Gender Inequality in Employment -- Chapter 3: Women’s Work in Modern Service Sector -- Chapter 4: Women in Modern Industrial Sector -- Chapter 5: Women in Domestic Work -- Chapter 6: Measurement Problem of Women’s Work -- Chapter 5: Way...

1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of Dynamic Mechanism of Economic Growth in Large Developed Countries -- 3. Assessment of the Quality of Economic Growth in Brics Countries -- 4. Economic Growth and Transformation Path of the Brics Countries -- 5. Shared Growth of Foreign Trade of the Brics...