"The Minister of Finance of an African country needs to reallocate the country's public investment to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving the proportion of the poor and hungry by 2015: Should the minister increase investment in health and education, with the view that...

1. Relaxing export constraints : the role of governments / Marc Bacchetta -- 2. Assessing export supply constraints : methodology, data and measurement / Tyler Biggs -- 3. The business of exporting : transaction costs facing suppliers in Sub-Saharan Africa / William M. Lyakurwa -- 4. The role of...

pt. 1. Insights from history -- pt. 2. The finance and trade dimension -- pt. 3. The technology and innovation dimension -- pt. 4. The gender and employment dimension -- pt. 5. The scenario for big developing states : the case of South Africa -- pt. 6. The scenario for small developing states :...

1. The gender context of vulnerability to HIV/AIDS : the case of men and women in low income areas of the city of Lilongwe in Malawi / Ezekiel Kalipeni and Jayati Ghosh -- 2. Treating AIDS in Uganda and South Africa : semi-authoritarian technologies in gendered contexts of insecurity / Lisa Ann...

1. The self help group bank linkage programme -- 2. Impact assessment methodologies and study design -- 3. Reducing poverty and vulnerability -- 4. Asset creation -- 5. Empowering women -- 6. Building human capital through training -- 7. Achieving impact and meeting challenges.

1. Success factors of microcredit : what can we learn for international development? / Farhad Hossain, Christopher Rees and Tonya Knight Millar -- 2. A short history of the Grameen Bank : from subsidized microcredit to market-based microfinance / David Hulme -- 3. Microcredit as a...