Report on regional planning to promote regional development in Lesotho - covers economic development problems, national planning, development potential of growth poles, etc., and includes a summary and conclusions on growth centre policy and alternate development policies. Bibliography pp. 112 to 118, maps, questionnaire and statistical tables.

This Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for the Kingdom of Lesotho presents a determined plan in pursuance of high and sustainable equity-based economic growth. It contains medium-term objectives and strategies to address the major challenges facing the country. These challenges include employment creation and income generation, and improving quality of and access to education and health services. Lesotho plans to deal boldly with its trading and investment partners by exploiting the opportunities inherent in the process of globalization under such mechanisms as the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act.

Southern Africa suffers from disproportionately expensive capital which denies the region its full growth potential. This book presents ideas and proposals for reducing the cost of capital in the region.

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Lesotho Economic & Development Strategy Handbook

Based on extensive field work and documentation, the book provides a timely, comprehensive and scholarly examination of Tanzania's experience with growth centre planning. It discusses the salient features of Tanzania's growth centre and industrial decentralisation strategy and critically examines the post-independence industrial and urban development policies of the erstwhile Nyerere administration, identifying the primary factors accounting for their failure and poor implementation. It highlights the lessons derived from Tanzania's planning experience for other countries of Africa and the rest of the developing world.

This study evaluates controversies that persist with respect to aid conditionality, how successful donors have been in stemming aid conditionality, and how the financial crisis has made it difficult to maintain traditional conditionality frameworks.

Primary commodities dominate African exports, yet these products are extremely vulnerable to variations in weather conditions, world demand and prices. If the continent is to obtain optimum benefit from the integration and opening of the world ...