Africa, in particular Sub-Saharan Africa, has moved into the focus of the global development agenda not least due to its remarkable growth in the first decade of the 21st century.
Economic growth has come largely at the expense of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, and has not yet provided the basis for substantial reductions in economic and social inequality, which is why the concept of green growth…
As PEGNet celebrates its tenth anniversary conference this October, the international development community will find itself at an important milestone, namely the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September. They will constitute…
According to ILO estimates, 900 million people are poor despite being employed, 200 million people are unemployed and 75 million of them are young people in the age between 15-24 years. Global youth unemployment has grown at an alarming rate…
The role played by education in furthering growth and sustainable development can hardly be disputed. Access to basic education is a human right and education also constitutes an important component of human development as well as of multidimensional…
The recent success in reducing poverty and raising economic growth rates that has been achieved by many developing countries has not been accompanied by a corresponding reduction in inequality.
The conference provided a platform for high-level dialogue between development researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. The two conference days featured parallel sessions based on invited and contributed papers as well as project presentations.
The Conference again provided a platform for high-level dialogue between development researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. It featured parallel sessions based on invited and contributed papers and project presentations.
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