The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA … the same period for South East Asia and India, for instance. Meanwhile, human development had also resurged since the mid …

This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms …' in Africa (and beyond). The problem is that many of the reforms have been limited to these kinds of gains - producing new …

-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 … recovery to structural transformation. This paper reviews the evolution of development theory and practice, the role of …

This paper compares two important sources of tax revenue statistics for African countries, namely the Africa Tax … Administration Forum's African Tax Outlook and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research …

This paper studies individual-level labour market transitions and their determinants in South Africa during the zenith … determinants remains however difficult to link to South Africa's economic trajectory. …

This paper outlines the contours of global economic development, since 1980, to analyse underlying factors and consider …, manufacturing and trade, is striking. But development, driven by rapid economic growth, has been most uneven. It is concentrated in … to development, rather than unique solutions, so that one-size-does-not-fit-all and there are choices to be made. And it …

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …