The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (SRISE) (2009) proposes a three-pronged definition of fragile states as the one that lacks authority (authority failure), fail to provide services (service entitlement failure) or lack legitimacy (legitimacy failure). While with...

Health expenditure consists of all expenditures or costs for medical care, prevention, promotion, rehabilitation, community health activities, health administration and regulation and capital formation with the predominant objective of improving health in a country or region. According to WHO...

In simple terms, economic growth is the increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time, which is most cases a year. It is measured as the percent rate of increase in real gross domestic product (GDP), usually in per capita terms....

The success and prosperity of any country, developed or underdeveloped, is strictly and directly tied to the performance of its private, social, and public sectors, in separation or in combination. Public entrepreneurship can be conceived as the emergence and growth of new formal organizations,...

Contemporary Africa is still struggling with the legacies of slavery, apartheid, colonialism and the deleterious impact of Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and now globalisation. Some parts of postcolonial Africa have attempted to set up ministries of economic development. Others have...