Without an acceleration of rural development, the prospects for recovery from the deteriorating economic conditions currently being experienced in large parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are poor. The required strategy of rural development must concentrate on the poorest rural groups. In terms of...

In all the analyses of the African crisis, the impact on children and women has been grossly underemphasized. The potential role of women in implementing and designing measures to alleviate and reverse the current economic malaise has received equally little systematic attention. To respond to...