This paper analyzes the relationship betweeneducation and employment in Malawi, usingdata from the 2004-05 Integrated HouseholdSurvey (IHS-2). For both men and women,education is the passport to formalemployment and leads to higher hourlyearnings. Within regular wage employment,secondary...

This paper analyses China’s growing foreignaid and export credit programme as anelement of the changing international aidarchitecture. The paper finds that practicesgoverning Chinese aid and developmentfinance diverge from clear OECD standardsand norms on transparency and definitions,the...

This paper searches for the most effective technology for agricultural growth in Africa on the basis ofFAO data available during the last forty years. The paper discusses the challenges for agriculturalgrowth and evaluates the development assistance that was made by donors to the agricultural...

African countries have not embraced trade liberalization in the manner thatother developing regions have. Protectionist measures have taken various forms,including tariffs, quantitative restrictions, exchange controls and downrightimport bans. A significant number of researchers have attributed,...

La présente étude sur la pauvreté en République démocratique du Congo se propose d’analyser la répartition spatiale de la pauvreté afin de pouvoir identifier les provinces qui sont les plus affectées ainsi que le degré de cette disparité. La source principale des données utilisées...

Africa must continue to be active in international trade negotiations as it is being squeezed. Policy changes in its markets, dubbed incorrectly as ‘liberalisation’ by proponents is eroding rapidly the competitive advantage conferred on traditional exports to long standing markets without...

In this paper, an input-output framework is used for measuring thesignificance of domestic levels of mineral and energy sectors for variouseconomies at different stages of economic development. The aim is to determinethe significance of industry interconnectedness between each mineral and...

This paper analyses the applicability of a nonlinear Taylor rule in characterizing the monetary policy behavior of the South African Reserve Bank, using a logistic smooth transition regression approach. Using quarterly data from 1976 to 2008 to analyze the movement of the nominal short term...

At least since the early 1990s, the problem of Africa’s debt was a recurring theme in the development debate and many suggestions for debt relief have now been implemented. However, a thorough solution is hampered by the existence of multiple ways of scaling debt. This paper provides a...

The recent advances in information technology are becoming central to the process of socio-economic development. Information technology offers new ways of exchanging information, and transacting business, changes the nature of the financial and other service sectors and provides efficient means...