Port Development and Competition in East and Southern Africa analyzes the 15 main ports in East and Southern Africa (ESA) to assess whether their proposed capacity enhancements are justified by current and projected demand; whether the current port management approaches sufficiently address not...

This book explores the economic and broader societal rationale for using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or "drone” technologies as acomplement to the current transport and logistics systems in several use cases in East Africa. The specific use cases examined include medical goods deliveries,...

Der Weltentwicklungsbericht 2008 geht der Frage nach, welchen Beitrag die Agrarwirtschaft zur Entwicklung leisten kann. Drei von vier Menschen in Entwicklungsländern leben auf dem Land und die Existenz der meisten hängt direkt oder indirekt von der Agrarwirtschaft ab. Der Bericht bietet einen...