This paper examines the efficiency of commercial banks in Namibia using the standard econometric frontier approach. Although two aspects of efficiency (scale and scope) receive our attention, the emphasis is on the latter which pertains to whether a firm produces as efficiently as it possibly...

<p>In the late 1990s and at the early path of this century, most African economies embraced poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) as a policy prescription out of the poverty abyss into which their economies had sunk since the early 1970s. The results from the first generation of PRSP processes...</p>

The role of the multilateral aid agencies in the delivery of aid is as old as the debate on the role of aid in economic development. Aid is effective in a good policy environment. However, effective aid delivery is equally important. This is why the need to reform the institutions involved in...