This title discusses how to alleviate poverty in Africa, identifying the constraints under which women operate and policies that will aid growth and empower women, recognising the importance of bargaining parameters and the role of assets

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the effectiveness of aid has increased over time, in the light of the contention by Boone (199,. 1996), Dollar and Burnside (1997) and the World Bank (1998) on the issue of the extent to which the impact of aid on investment and growth is...