advantage and development potential for the majority of LDCs, via its extensive upstream and downstream linkages …

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

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 poverty target despite the sub-region enjoying more than two …

-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa … scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from over 150 recently published papers on …

Reconciling the two dominant development models of the Washington Consensus (WC) and Beijing Model (BM) remains a … critical challenge in the literature. The challenge is even more demanding when emerging development paradigms like the Liberal … institutional diversity matter in the development process. We synthesize perspectives from recently published papers on development …