Understanding Performance of Retail Formats in Africa / John L. Stanton and Felix Adamu Nandonde -- Consumer Shopping … Traditional Markets in Ghana / Emmanuel Kojo Sakyi -- ICT Usage in Supermarkets in East Africa: Benefits, Challenges and the Way … in East Africa / Mushi A. R. and Sumaya M. Kagoya -- Strategies Used by Local Food Suppliers to Increase Participation in …

Odobo -- Beyond Neo-Functionalism: Africa in Search of a New Theory of Regional Integration / Ernest Toochi Aniche … Africa: Some Critical Disjunctures / -- Inocent Moyo -- Towards a Single African Economic Space: Informal Cross-border trade … Central and West Africa: ECCAS and ECOWAS in Comparative Perspective / Emeka C. Iloh and Emmanuel C. Ojukwu -- European Union …

versus Entrepreneurial Innovation / Robin Steedman -- Making a living through and for Visual Artists in East Africa / Andrew … Cultural and Creative Industry Clustering: The Sarah Baartman District, South Africa / Fiona Drummond and Jen Snowball -- The …"Bringing together the experience of academics and practitioners, this book discusses creative economies in Africa …

versus Entrepreneurial Innovation / Robin Steedman -- Making a living through and for Visual Artists in East Africa / Andrew … Cultural and Creative Industry Clustering: The Sarah Baartman District, South Africa / Fiona Drummond and Jen Snowball -- The …

Africa: Implications for contemporary policy / James Drummond and Fiona Drummond -- Finance for creative and cultural … industries in Africa / Yemisi Mokuolu, Victoria Isabelle Kay, Claudia Mari̹a Velilla-Zuloaga -- Developing the handicraft sector … in South Africa: the role of policy / Oluwayemisi Adebola Abisuga-Oyekunle , Lauren England and Roberta Comunian …

investment is a clear warning signal, which calls for an active industry policy. Nowadays, industry policy implies, first and … efficient education and training system, an investment-friendly tax policy and a future-oriented environmental policy. …

The low interest rate environment is less due to monetary policy and more due to global trends in investment and … savings as well as a crisis-induced reduction in investment. Finishing the balance sheet recession can lead to a higher … interest rate level in the medium-run through higher investment. A higher natural real interest rate would enable central banks …