This article reviews trends in poverty, economic policies, and growth in a sample of African
countries during the 1990s, drawing on the better household data now available …

Annotation Extreme poverty and underdevelopment continue to plague what is becoming
the world's" forgotten continent." For decades now, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have …

This paper reviews recent research dealing with the relationships between economic
growth, income distribution, and poverty. This generally fails to find any systematic pattern of …

This article seeks to accomplish three objectives. The first is to interrogate the efficacy of the
African Virtual University (AVU), which is a satellite and information technology (IT)-based …

This publication analyses country studies into poverty dynamics over the past decade in
eight African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia …

This article argues that a shift towards issues of poverty is a welcome antidote to policy-
making that had expunged poverty from the central agenda to focus on stabilization, debt …

In the late 1990s the bilateral and multilateral development agencies came to place
increasing policy emphasis on poverty reduction in developing countries. 78 Some agencies …

In this essay dedicated to the memory of Surendra Patel, we complement his work on
technological transformation with a brief history of the origins and geographic spread of …

The process of globalization, particularly in developing countries, has been significantly
accelerated through the global economic policies implemented by major international …

2012), que estabeleceram ligações novas entre países do sul global, apesar de sua
distância geográfica e cultural; por outro lado, explicam-se pelas dificuldades de uma …