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 …

The notion that economic development in African states requires minimal levels of security has become widely accepted … in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward … achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …

Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … dependence on imported fossil fuels, but also stimulate economic development, particularly in poorer rural areas. Skeptics, on … domestic biofuels production and its broader implications for economic development. To guide these complex evaluations, this …

formulation with appropriate and relevant measurement of entrepreneurship and the business environment, the primary focus in this … paper is to scrutinize existing international indicators, in particular the World Bank's Doing Business (DB) indicators and …

illustrate this argument using case studies of Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa, which are engaged in development strategies … pursuing an environmentally suboptimal strategy but nonetheless addressing critical development needs, including food security …

This paper provides a synthesis of the country cases in the Middle East and North Africa: Oman, Bahrain, Tunisia, and … share common aspects of successful development. This chapter focuses on the developmental role played by good management of …, including particularly the need for political reforms, in order to achieve a higher and sustainable economic development …

Almost all major development institutions today say that promoting good governance is an important part of their … world relevance to development policy because donor agencies regularly measure and assess the quality of governance … partly on the basis of claims that better governance promotes economic development. The weakness of the good governance …

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 …