Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critically the narrative that the informal economy in Africa has no … place within the framework of economic development. Considered as a sign of “backwardness”, “traditionalism” and … “underdevelopment”, the informal economy in Africa has persistently grown notwithstanding Africa’s economic destabilisation through the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to integrate two main strands of the aid-development nexus in assessing whether … institutional thresholds matter in the effectiveness of foreign-aid on institutional development in 53 African countries over the … relationship between institutional dynamics and development assistance differs throughout the distributions of institutional …

threshold development conditions are necessary for the effectiveness of foreign aid in Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The … inequality adjusted human development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if … panel quantile regression technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and …

registration in the rural areas of Malawi. Design/methodology/approach – Using new data collected from around 100 households … farming around 200 parcels in three regions of Malawi, a number of models are estimated with ordinary least squares. Findings … enhancing land market activities for rural masses in Malawi. Originality/value – The uniqueness of this paper rests in it its …

. This may be an impediment to Kenya's development. Design/methodology/approach – First relevant economic literature is …

The legacy of the last 50 years of development economics is not very inspiring. In the 1960s and 1970s, instead of … looking at the real causes and viable solutions to poverty and underdevelopment, development economics was preoccupied with … specific policies of development. These countries skillfully combined government interventionism with market system incentives …

Micro-finance institutions are critical to Africa's quest for solutions to the continent's development challenge. The … area of their greatest potential impact, rural Africa, is not only home to the bulk of the continent's population, but also … the vast majority of Africa's poor. This paper not only defines MFIs with examples from Zambia, South Africa, Mali and …

the 2nd Tokyo International Conference on African Development. Africa's recent economic performance is a reflection of the … international development goals and targets set by the United Nations, UN Millennium Development Goals and the Agenda for Action of … levels. It also demonstrates that the economic and social recovery that Africa experienced in the late 1990s cannot be …

stimulate small firms’ competitiveness in the current globalized export markets if the millennium development goals are to be … strategies under the global partnership for development. One such approach is to promote partnering and networks. The Tanzanian …