Many African governments favour a robust investment climate. Within the context of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the APRM Secretariat is working on improving the investment-climate content of Africa’s own peer review mechanism. African countries are also looking for more...

We hope to move away from the perspective of African ‘victimhood’ by stressing ‘African agency’. Originating in nineteenth-century philosophical discourse, the theme of ‘Structure and Agency’ has been adopted in many academic disciplines. The conference also allows for a...

We hope to move away from the perspective of African ‘victimhood’ by stressing ‘African agency’. Originating in nineteenth-century philosophical discourse, the theme of ‘Structure and Agency’ has been adopted in many academic disciplines. The conference also allows for a...

The Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies exists to foster the development of sets of key economic, social and environmental indicators and their use to inform and promote evidence-based decision-making, within and across the public, private and citizen sectors. These indicator...

Conference themes: - the impact of globalization on policy making and implementation; changes induced by the shifting role of the state; contemporary actors of development; - globalization and European integration: consequences upon national development policies; - sustainable development...

The main objectives of the conference can be state as follows: - To offer an opportunity for theoreticians and practitioners of statistical methods to meet and exchange views on all aspects of statistical methods applied to the problems of development in Africa. - To promote research in...