It has a been a number of years since mobile phone penetration rates began turning heads in development circles.
Waiting on a Transformation: When will ICT Make Good on its Governance Potential?
Politics
Drought Politics in Southern Africa
Why is it that droughts always seem to surprise, despite the warnings? The current El Niño drought is no exception…
Prospects of Japan’s Assistance for Central Asia – In the Aftermath of Prime Minister Abe’s Visit to Central Asia
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited five Central Asian countries in October 2015. This was the second Japanese Prime Minister to have visited this region since the former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in 2006.
Current Situation of Development in Central Asian Countries
In the last 24 years since the collapse of USSR, five Central Asian countries have been transformed. Each has transitioned from communism and planned economy…
Prospects of Japan’s Assistance for Central Asia – In the Aftermath of Prime Minister Abe’s Visit to Central Asia
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited five Central Asian countries in October 2015.
Seeds for Africa’s Green Revolution: Can India Help?
Over the last year or so we have been doing some work exploring how the Indian seed sector might contribute to African agriculture, boosting productivity and assisting in particular smaller, poorer farmers.
Ebola and the Changing Environment in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a country endowed with mineral resources but the amount of revenue that has been generated from the sector has been quite low.
The Political Economy of Small-Scale Mining in Zimbabwe
There was much discussion about small-scale and artisanal mining at the STEPS Centre’s Resource Politics conference last month.
Democracy in Africa: Why It’s Complicated
Nic Cheeseman has just produced a book called ‘Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures and the Struggle for Political Reform” with Cambridge University Press.
SDGs: Will they make a difference?
This week heads of state assemble in New York to launch the Sustainable Development Goals. The agreed text lays out 17 goals and 169 targets. It is an ambitious agenda for all of humanity.
