Klappentext: This edited volume explores and dissects Africa's economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent's development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing...

Part I Sustainability in Infrastructure Development -- Chapter 1. Resilient Off-Grid Solar PV Power Supply for Rural Communities -- Chapter 2. Alternative Dispute Resolution in Kenya -- Chapter 3. Engineering Skills Development Through Mega Construction Projects (MCPs) -- Chapter 4. A Conceptual...

Part I Transforming Infrastructure Development -- 1. Corporate Governance in South Africa: A Comparative Aspect -- 2. Hi-Tech Development of Modern Africa: Opportunities and Barriers -- 3. Information Society, Telecommunication Infrastructure, and Digital Entrepreneurship in Modern Africa -- 4....

Macroeconomic performance and policies -- Employment, food security and poverty -- Physical and social infrastructure -- Agricultural and rural industrialisation -- Foreign direct investment in manufacturing and services -- Socio-political issues in the reform process

The objective of this paper is to review the experience of infrastructure regulation in low and middle income countries, to assess the applicability of this experience to developing Asia, and to identify areas for future research on infrastructure regulation in the low and middle income...

Global markets for goods and services have opened for countries that have made substantial investments in technological innovations in transportation, communications and production techniques, inventory management and the rapid rate of innovation in financial instruments, among others. This...