Over the past decade, Africa has been experiencing an economic resurgence. Yet, the continent is facing several … difficult challenges and many economies of the region continue to be among the least competitive in the world. Africa …'s competitiveness is adversely affected by: (i) poor regional infrastructure networks; and (ii) weak institutional capacity. Increased …

Although development generally refers to a broad concept, the quest for development in Sub-Saharan Africa has been …

four economic and monetary regions in Africa for the period 1980 to 2008. Banking system and financial system efficiencies …

Organization of African Unity, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and subregional institutions - the Economic …

the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and …

Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The small, sparsely populated, fragmented, and often isolated economies across … Africa make a compelling case for these economies to integrate regionally to reap efficiency gains, exploit economies of …

scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-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 …