The authors use macro-economic models to identify short-term constraints and degrees of freedom for strategic and tactical economic planning and to identify the areas in which medium and long-term action to increase degrees of freedom and relax constraints is most critical and potentially most...

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...