This brief analyzes 35 years of Chinese special economic zone (SEZ) development, identifies Chinese SEZs’ success factors and challenges, and provides recommen da - tions to Africa for successful implementation of SEZs. The impact of Chinese SEZs on national development has been impressive. Its...

Following the discovery of oil and the enactment of the 1993 Petroleum Exploration and Production Act, many Ugandans are predicating their future on the anticipated benefits from oil. Consistent with this expectation, the goal of the 2008 oil policy is to use the country’s oil and gas resources...

The SE4All Africa Hub is hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) pursuant to a mandate from the Conference of Energy Ministers of...

There has been increasing recognition of the importance of poverty reduction as a development objective in the economic literature and in policy circles. Indeed, poverty eradication was enshrined as the first Millennium Development Goal, and also tops the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) list...

After a decade and a half of economic growth, occurring not just in a few, but in the majority of African countries, time has come to evaluate the sources of such growth, its sustainability and the extent to which it has fuelled poverty reduction and wellbeing across the continent. This chapter...

This paper investigates the impact of real exchange rate changes on the export performances of Ethiopia and Tanzania. Both countries have gone through a process of liberalisation including significant changes in both the nominal and real exchange rate. In the case of Tanzania, the exchange rate...

Health is a particular pressing issue to address in such developing regions as Sub-Saharan Africa, where drinking water is often scarce if not contaminated, life expectancy at birth was only 58.6 years in 2014, below the World average of 71.5 years, and where the prevalence of maternal mortality...

Human beings have been modifying tropical forests for tens of thousands of years. Between 2000 to 2012 alone, an estimated 2.3 million square kilometers of forests have been lost worldwide (Hansen et al., 2013). These forests have been transformed mainly into agricultural lands (Kissinger and...

Women’s contribution to economic development is hard to over-emphasize. In the agricultural sector of many developing countries, they represent the main driving force and spend considerable amount of time planting, weeding, ridging, and harvesting, while simultaneously doing their regular chores....