Economic Growth and Development

The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network of regional nodes supporting the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Africa-based centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to facilitate the implement

The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network of regional nodes supporting the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Africa-based centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to facilitate the implement

The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network of regional nodes supporting the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Africa-based centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to facilitate the implement

We examine the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as short-run and long-run measures of schooling.

The second issue of Africa's Pulse was released on October 8, 2010. It provides the following analysis on African countries:

1. Recent economic trends and prospects

2. Trends in country policies and institutions

3. Progress toward the MDGs

This report is a joint Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) and World Bank initiative aimed at facilitating informed policy-making in public service management. As in other post-conflict situations, the Southern Sudanese state faces two sets of challenges--the provision of security and establishing legitimacy, and making the state function effectively and efficiently. These issues have a renewed significance in the face of the fiscal management challenges due to extreme commodity dependence on oil, coupled with the referendum due in 2011.

This report is intended to provide a thorough analytical foundation for strategic planning and sector dialogue among education policy makers, development partners and civil society representatives at a key turning point in the development of education in Ghana. During the last decade, access has radically improved. Between 2002/03 and 2009/10 enrollments in primary education grew by 1,284,673 or 50.9 percent.

Burundi’s growth policy should focus on: (1) closing the infrastructure gap; (2) gaining from regional integration; (3) improving the business environment; (4) promoting new growth sources; and (5) strengthening its fiscal position through improved revenue mobilization, more efficient spending, better public financial management, and more effective aid.

The Montpellier Panel presented their new report ‘Growth with Resilience: Opportunities in African Agriculture’ on Wednesday 21st March at the Department for International Development (DFID), London and on Thursday 22nd March at the European Commission, Brussels.

An analysis of the quality of the data on age at 1st union, age at 1st birth, and age at 1st sexual intercourse collected in Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 22 developing countries revealed considerable variation in the accuracy and completeness of the information collected. Accurate data on these parameters is especially important since they determine the total number of years of exposure to the risk of pregnancy and identify when the period of exposure began.