Development Centre Studies Trading Competitively Trade Capacity Building In Sub Saharan Africa

Presents evidence confirming the existence of a wide array of policy options for increasing business competitiveness and reducing dependence on primary commodities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Results of a research project on "Trade and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa", organized by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Papers focus on export performance, the international trade system and the effects of various policies.

This book maps the process and political economy of policy making in Africa. It's focus on trade and industrial policy makes it unique and it will appeal to students and academics in economics, political economy, political science and African studies. Detailed case studies help the reader to understand how the process and motivation behind policy decisions can vary from country to country depending on the form of government, ethnicity and nationality and other social factors.

By analysing investment flows and examining the role of foreign direct investment in key industries, this book examines why Southern Africa has not become a magnet for FDI and what it needs to do to attract more investment.

The Organisation's Development Centre was founded in 1962 as one means to study and to try to confront the problems of comparative development and to relate them to experiences in the more advanced economies. This book provides a compendium of that experience.

Business for Development 2008 offers a fresh look at African agriculture and seeks ways for it to become a profitable industry.

This book details the activities of the private sector in developing and emerging economies and demonstrates how these activities are inter-related with government policies.