The ongoing national reconstruction process of Eritrea is centered on educational reformation. The government of Eritrea placed educational policy on top priority for national development which demands the emergence of new class of trained youth blended with disciplined minds and skills instead...

This paper looks at property rights in mineral resources in Africa. It considers whether mineral resources are important in the workings of modern African economies, compared with other, more popular domains of economic activity. It presents a five-stage history of mining development in African...

The WIPO Development Agenda process is an opportunity for WIPO Member States to mainstream development concerns into WIPO's activities and ensure that international IP systems take into account development goals and human rights obligations. Moreover, the WIPO Development Agenda discussions...

Do broad, universal intellectual property rights bring the benefits of innovation, creativity, technical know-how, and foreign investment to developing countries? Or do treaties that require developing countries to grant greater intellectual property protection actually stifle development and...

Do conceptions of just rewards vary with economic development? To investigate this question we use the 1999-2000 "Inequality-III" round of the International Social Science Project together with other data in the World Inequality Study. There are 30 countries and 19 568 individual respondents in...

"There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, over a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental...