The paper contains practical, operational guidelines for analysis and decision making. It does not, and cannot, prescribe a standard essential package of care, define costs that will be universally applicable...
Significant reserves of natural gas have been discovered in sub - Saharan Africa (SSA) during the last twenty years. The vast majority of these resources are still not utilized. In addition, large amounts...
Dynamic, productive and responsive agricultural research systems are critical if the rich potential of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) region in sub - Saharan Africa is...
This paper evaluates and updates the 1988 World Bank agenda for action on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Africa. What was seen previously as largely a disease of urban populations is now...
This paper examines, through a brief review of the literature, the impact of increased income on nutritional status and the factors that mitigate this influence. It shows that household food security (access...
This paper provides a general review of experience with Integrated Rural Development Programs (IRDPs). The purpose of the review is to extract lessons which can be applied to Integrated Natural Resource...
Good health both contributes to and is an objective of economic development. Health status and long life expectancy are important indicators of individual well-being. However, health also has an impact...
This paper estimates the macroeconomic impact of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) on the sub-Saharan economies by projecting the growth trajectories of 30 countries with and without the AIDS...
Over the past thirty years, most of sub-Saharan Africa has experienced very rapid population growth, poor agricultural growth and severe environmental degradation. Increasing concern over these trends...
The principal objective of this review is to assess the broad development policy implications of international migration in sub - Saharan Africa. This first volume provides an overview of migration scale...
At the time of independence from Britain in 1968, education in Swaziland was characterized by poor quality, uneven distribution of schools, high dropout and repeater rates, serious teacher shortages, and...
This paper reviews the evolution of the Kenyan education system since independence from Britain in 1963. At the time of independence, very few resources were devoted to the education of Africans vis a...
This paper reviews a number of educational policy statements in east African countries on issues ranging from combining education with production at the primary level to the financing of higher education...