agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …-based strategies exemplified under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). …Africa's improved growth performance over the last 15 years provides an opportunity for the continent to transit from …

One of the key economic development challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is its low agricultural productivity …. Governments, donors, and foreign investors have underinvested in African agriculture even though research evidence shows that … Moments to examine whether official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture and rural development is helping to boost …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …

The rate of deforestation in Africa is of paramount concern not only to the future of Africa, but also to the world …

Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia's success … East and South East Asia and asks: what can other developing countries learn from Asia's success, if anything? The study … developing nations of today cannot ignore the rise of Asia and the study identifies useful insights from the Asian experience …

countries have pursued a developmental state and applied interventionist policies in agriculture, industry, and macroeconomics …

Using a comparative frame that draws on the variation of developmental trajectories in Asia from Northeast Asia to … China to Southeast Asia and to India, this paper explores the changing role of the state in these countries and the … possibilities for state action in Asia have been shaped by geo-political context and colonial heritage. We analyse the ways in which …

these policy tools to achieve stated objectives; and (iii) the overall development trends observed in the Asia region. The …