This collection draws together contemporary articles on development economics. Ideal for students with little or no background in economics, it covers a range of themes including poverty, foreign aid, agriculture and human capital

A 2015 World Bank report on the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) revealed that since the 1990s, extreme poverty has been decreasing in all regions of the world with the exception of Africa where about 50 percent of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa did not achieve the MDG extreme...