This book addresses the need to support decision-makers across Africa by promoting awareness of the importance of space technologies and data to African development through the presentation of existing examples where space supports education and healthcare, and by making recomme…
This book addresses the need to support decision-makers across Africa by promoting awareness of the importance of space technologies and data to African development through the presentation of existing examples where space supports education and healthcare, and by making recomme…
Over the past decade, Africa's center of gravity in world politics has shifted from mere humanitarianism to a strategic view that posits the centrality of the continent as energy and natural resources supplier, in the fight against terrorism and other security threats, and in th…
This book argues that the poverty and underdevelopment of Africa are the result of poor leadership, which is demonstrated in the historical indifference of a long succession of Africa's ruling classes to scientific and technological progress.
Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions - Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa - to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts…
How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. The con…
How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. The con…
This collection of ten articles on the export slave trade from Africa serves as a vehicle for the editor's long and provocative introductory essay. The articles, originally published between I964 and I977, were selected to illustrate the editor's two major emphases: the relation…
What are the major economic and social trends in Africa? What is Africa's role in globalisation? This annual report presents an Africa open to the world and towards the future. Africa's Development Dynamics uses the lessons learned in the five African regions - Central, East, No…