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Financing higher education in Africa
World Bank, 2010This report is a follow-up to the 2008 study published by the World Bank, Accelerating Catch Up—Tertiary Education for Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, which spelled out the case for more knowledge-intensive growth in Africa and described the critical role of higher education in this endeavor. It examines current practices in financing higher education in Sub-Saharan AfricDocumentAfrica capacity indicators 2012: capacity development for agricultural transformation and food security
African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012A core message in the report is that improving the productivity and the economic returns of agriculture has immediate effects on poverty and hunger in at least three important ways: a) it increases the productivity and incomes of the majority of Africa’s poor, who work primarily in agriculture; b) it reduces food prices, which affect real incomes and poverty in urban areas; and, c) it genDocumentChinese agriculture development cooperation in Africa: narratives and politics
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013Chinese agriculture engagements are redefining the 'aid‘ landscape, moving from a paradigm of development assistance to one of development cooperation mixed with investment. China‘s leadership asserts that this approach infuses new life into South-South cooperation and promot[es] the establishment of a fair and rational new international political and economic order.DocumentTales of shit: community-led total sanitation in Africa
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2010This particular issue of Participatory Learning and Action focuses on community-led total sanitation (CLTS) in Africa.DocumentHard times: the world economic crisis and emerging capacity challenges fo Africa
African Capacity Building Foundation, 2010The world economy has changed significantly in recent times. With greater financial globalisation, there emerged a mistaken perception that 'fathomless' capital was a pattern of this 'new world'. It soon became apparent that the recent financial crisis was a result of fragility in the financial system – in turn a product of limited/lack of transparency in the system.DocumentThe last golden land? Chinese private companies go to Africa
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012A new dynamic presence is spreading rapidly and widely across Africa: that of Chinese private enterprises. For these firms, Africa is ‘the last golden land’ of economic opportunity.DocumentRegionalism and economic integration in Africa: a conceptual and theoretical perspective
African Capacity Building Foundation, 2014A well-established strand of the literature on regionalism and economic integration has made clear that economic, geopolitical, and socio-cultural relationships across the globe, for which Africa is no exception, have been changing rapidly in the last few decades. African leadersDocumentHigher education and economic growth in Africa (2006)
Journal of Development Studies, 2006This paper uses panel data over the 1960–2000 period, a modified neoclassical growth equation, and a dynamic panel estimator to investigate the effect of higher education human capital on economic growth in African countries.DocumentUniversities and economic development in Africa
Centre for Higher Education Transformation, 2001This study attempts to address the gaps in research on the characteristics and dynamics of the relationship between higher education and development, and the contextual and institutional factors that facilitate or inhibit these relationships.DocumentTest it and they might come: Improving the uptake of digital tools in transparency and accountability initiatives
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and data play an increasingly visible role in transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs). There has been little research on how the selection of ICT tools influences the success of these initiatives. This article reports on research into TAI tool selection processes in South Africa and Kenya.Pages
