Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...

The “Beijing Consensus” (BC) as a concept has been utilised to distinguish China's economic development experience from the “Washington Consensus” (WC), the policy toolkit offered to developing countries by Washington-based international organisations. This paper posits that recent...