This article explores the main features of Ethiopia's ‘developmental state’ and takes a critical look at how model is applied in practice, capturing parallels contradictions through comparative evidence with that East Asia model. Accordingly, it notes Asian has strong ideological influence on Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regime, allowing to formulate vision developm...

Development is excited to announce the launch of a new community website for all biologists interested in developmental biology, called the Node: a place where the developmental biology community can discuss, debate and deliberate issues relevant to developmental biology and to other research fields that this community’s work informs and touches upon. In 2009, to assist with the recruitment of ...

purpose:  the paper aims to focus on south africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. it attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the national dev...

this paper examines critically the contributions of cournot, jevons and walras as the founders of classical mathematical economics from a methodological standpoint. advances in different economic schools and doctrines in the 19th century produced an environment of multi-dimensionality in economic analysis which was regarded by the pioneers of classical mathematical economists as a chaotic state...