to achieve sustainable development and poverty reduction. Despite its rapid urban growth, Africa is less than halfway … than half of Africa's population will live in its cities by 2040. In the face of rapid urbanization, there is a narrow … of service delivery. This paper is organized in following chapters: chapter one discusses why is it urgent to get Africa …

) set out ambitious goals for reducing poverty and sustainably industrializing so that the country can achieve middle …-income status by 2025. The government recognizes agriculture as central to realizing its objectives of socioeconomic development …, which are well-articulated in the Second Agriculture Sector Development Program (ASDP II). Among the goals of ASDP II are to …

This paper presents the strategy vision for Africa of promoting tourism. The strategy relies on four pillars: policy …, implementation of the Africa Region Tourism Strategy, will focus interventions in these four areas in order to address the persistent … constraints to the growth of tourism in Africa. Combined, these interventions will enable high-demand tourism products to compete …

accelerate trade integration and growth, and to reduce poverty. Each part of the report focuses on a key question and provides an … poverty reduction using two types of macroeconomic models. The report concludes with policy priorities for accelerating …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …