Promising growth rates, increased trade, and competition among major global players for African resources have boosted the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed countries remain vulnerable to external shocks....

Conceptual framework -- No haste : the 1996 national development conference -- Active opening, effective management : the 2001 economic development advisory conference -- Active management, effective opening : the 2006 conference on sustaining Taiwan's economic development -- "Prosper again" :...