1. The World Bank and Wolfensohn era reforms -- 2. The ABCs of the World Bank -- 3. A framework for modeling Bank behavior -- 4. The dynamics of epistemic economic change -- 5. Application to debt relief, participation and knowledge -- 6. Application to social capital -- 7. Application to...

This book focuses on what can be learned from the complex processes of industrial, technological and organizational change in the sectoral system of information hardware (IH). The IH innovation system is deliberately chosen to illustrate how sectors act as seeds of economic progress. Detailed...

Overview 1. - 1 The State of Demographics in Sub-Saharan Africa 43. - 2 Speeding the Demographic Transition 71. - 3 Education Effects of the Demographic Dividend 111. - 4 Economic Effects of the Demographic Dividend 129. - Index 169