In many developing countries, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for a significant share of production and employment and are therefore directly connected to poverty alleviation. Especially in developing countries, SMEs are challenged by the globalisation of production and shift in the importance of the various determinants of competitiveness. Through the rapid spread of information an...

This paper offers a critique on the politics of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and their framework, processes, and content. The paper challenges the fundamental assumptions of the poverty reduction approach and the underlying politics of the international financial institutions with a view to seek the answer to question as to why the development programmes initiated under the auspices of...

This study is based on scientific publications, statistics and field observations. It shows the importance of livestock in the economy and in the risk management strategies implemented by poor farming households. A comparison of livestock performance trends with the evolution of rural poverty in developing countries indicates that growth in livestock production alone is not enough to reduce rur...

There are many factors that contribute to poverty and hunger in developing countries, including war, political instability, lack of infrastructure and poor economic conditions. We do not claim that the use of GM crops alone will eliminate the need for political, social or economic change, or that they will simply ‘feed the world’. We recognise that we are discussing only part of a much larger p...

climate change and its possible impacts on the environment and socio-economic systems now constitute the most important environmental problem facing mankind in the 21st century. climate change will increase poverty and hardship, endanger food security, destabilize economies, decrease food and water and create social insecurity in many countries and undermine our goals for achieving sustainable ...

in recent years, biotechnology has provided the possibility of creating genetically modified (gm) organisms by transferring genes from sources such as viruses, bacteria, animals, and plants into usually unrelated species. this ability to overcome insurmountable physiological barriers by exchanging genetic materials among all living organisms is a double-edged sword. on the one hand, it allows t...

The paper models the policy challenges facing globalizing developing countries. Models from the pure theory of international trade, the small open economy model, growth accounting, the SolowSwan model, the gravity model, models of portfolio diversification and currency crises models are reviewed to distil policy guidelines to promote the globalization of developing countries. The overriding obj...

As mobile phones are impregnating developing countries, there has also been a surge on the research of using mobile phone as a tool in solving development problems in the areas such as livelihoods, poverty alleviation, health, education, the environment and disasters. The mobile phone research is being mainly focused on developing a suitable and viable technology for rural development. Collecti...