Cameroon faces a challenging policy agenda over the next few years. The Government has been implementing its comprehensive poverty reduction strategy since April 2003. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) set an ambitious agenda for broad-based economic development with specific...

After nearly two decades of strong economic growth, in 2005 the economy was in difficulties. The loss of trade preferences in textiles in 2005, the anticipation of prospective reform to the European Union's sugar protocol for 2006-10, and higher international oil prices had contributed to a...

Between 1976 and the mid-2000s, Seychelles had transformed itself from a poor subsistence economy into a high middle income country with low levels of poverty and many social indicators comparable to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. However, this growth...