This first edition of the African Union Commission’s Africa’s Development Dynamics Report, produced by the AUC Department of Economic Affairs, conceived and developed by African experts and supported by the OECD Development Centre, aims to fuel debate between members of the Union, citizens, business people and researchers. It plays an imperative role in furthering ...

This history illustrates a number of themes encountered in Swaziland that faces developing countries and their external partners in Africa and beyond. Firstly, the history relates the experience of a small and comparatively insular country in addressing complex challenges deriving from rapid urbanizat...

In Africa, farmers have been reluctant to take up new varieties of staple crops developed to boost smallholder yields and rural incomes. Low fertilizer use is often mentioned as a proximate cause, but some believe the problem originates with incomplete input markets. As a remedy, African governments h...