The Role of Agriculture in Kenya's Political Economy in the Era of Transition and Independence -- Western Kenya's Region, People, and the Origins of Population Density -- Chavakali Secondary School: A Place of Learning and Farming -- "Doing Their Part": 4-K Farmers' Clubs -- Friends and Acres:...

"China is a powerful engine of the global economy and the country's rise is undoubtedly the outcome of its protracted campaign of designing and implementing national development strategies since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. This book reviews the transformation and...

This article reveals some of the specific features of long-term development programs of state owned enterprises that were developed according to the Russian Government decisions taken in January 30, 2014. Also the strategic long-term programs and key performance indicators were discussed and the...

In this paper I discuss the effectiveness of foreign aid from a historical perspective. I show that foreign aid is a relatively new concept in economics, and I emphasize the role of exchange rate policies in the foreign aid controversies of the 1970s through 1990s. I show that in the early 1980s...

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme — despite its failings and dismissals by prominent economists as a “dole” — is in consonance with the idea of sustainable development whose important cardinal components are economic, social and environmental sustainability