There exists a longstanding discussion of the role of the informal economy in the development process of Third World … development or should rather be considered as a barrier to modernization. There is a remarkable shift of attention, away from …

African states up to October 2014. The EPAs are meant not just to liberalize trade but also to promote economic development in …

question. Scholarly evaluation of the EPAs reveal double-talk and significant barriers to a sustainable development of African …

indigenous development capacities. Innovators in the informal sector and the agency of the civil society, embedded in the local … socio-cultural setting, but closely linked to transnational social spaces, do often outperform the state's development … static cultural factors as custom, tradition or ethnicity, often said to be barriers to economic growth in Africa, have been …