Over the past decade, a growing number of studies have examined role agricultural export in economic growth Africa. The literature, however, provides conflicting results about export-led hypothesis. In this study, we aim to re-examine impact on by performing meta-analysis. There are two questions interest, namely, (a) whether publication bias is present export-growth literature Africa, and (b) ...

Since the mid 1990s, poverty reduction has emerged as the overriding objective of the international development community. All policies are now evaluated from a poverty reduction perspective as a well as a growth perspective. This is now as true of economic policies as social policies. Consistent with this approach, the Bretton Woods Institutions require low-income developing countries to formu...

Outside of China, despite rapid economic growth in many low and middle income countries, there has been little progress in meeting the MDG1 target of halving the incidence of global poverty by 2014. Part of the explanation for this weak poverty-reducing performance has been the historic trajectory of innovation. During the 20 Century, most of global innovation had its origins in the north, prod...