Development as disruptions - a reconstruction of the theory and practice -- Social discontent as search for development: from colonialism to independence -- Natural resources, climate change and poor beneficiation - the potential for a curse -- Trade versus aid: economics, politics, and dilemmas...

Overview of the crisis -- Productive sector performance -- Banking, capital markets, and financial services -- Monetary policy and public financial management -- Social dimensios of the crisis -- Concluding remarks

This paper attempts to offer an empirical assessment of the main macroeconomic and institutional driver of income inequality in Africa. We use a Kuznets curve framework, which emphasises the role of income per capita in explaining the time path of inequality. In contrast to much of the...

There are over 650 million people in Africa who have no access to electricity; this is in sharp contrast to the continent’s vast untapped renewable energy potential and reflected by the lack of investments in energy infrastructure. New investments in decentralised power generation within...