The following study is an in depth analysis to examine the awareness that high schoolers had on an important local environmental issue. Students of a local suburban high school were rated on their knowledge of erosion, flooding, and building development issues on Sullivan’s Island, a nearby...

Women are under-acknowledged participants in Africa’s agriculture and food sector, supplying a large share of the labor, but facing significant obstacles, including unequal access to land, traditional division of labor, restrictions on mobility, unequal educational attainment, financial...

This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid) is effective. It argues that development assistance is continually changing as the ascendant visions of strong global leaders interact with theories of economic growth and...

Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....

The shock of the pandemic and subsequent overlapping crises has led to a reversal in development by exacerbating the challenges facing the most vulnerable 75 economies eligible for concessional loans and grants from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA). Over 2020-24, per...