Knowledge has emerged as a fundamental driver of economic growth and development by inter alia improving the … African countries affect the knowledge development process (and thereby competitiveness) on the continent. A knowledge economy …

-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …

Knowledge has emerged as a fundamental driver of economic growth and development by inter alia improving the … African countries affect the knowledge development process (and thereby competitiveness) on the continent. A knowledge economy …

indigenous development capacities. Innovators in the informal sector and the agency of the civil society, embedded in the local … socio-cultural setting, but closely linked to transnational social spaces, do often outperform the state's development … invented or adapted to changing requirements of societies. Rather than blaming the failure of development efforts in Africa …

positive impact on the real value-added of services and economic development. We analyze the results of several econometric … importance to improve socio-economic development. In the poorest countries of Africa, and other areas, increase of manufacturing … activities focused to development of domestic markets, should be included in the main strategies for international cooperation to …

, health expenditure and indicators of development and poverty reduction in Africa and Asia, with special attention to the role … of education in the process of socio-economic development. We also present our perspective on priorities for … international cooperation to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, and other positive goals for developing …