National planning for economic development has become an institutionalized process in most lesser developed nations of the world. A national plan is comprised of a set of development projects which individually and collectively are designed to contribute to achieving certain economic and social...

During the 1980s, most African countries implemented major policy reforms and economic adjustments designed to address the long term imbalances between domestic demand and supply, a cause of growing external deficits and of slowing of economic growth. Domestic policies are blamed as a major...

The interrelationships between the development of the agricultural sector, the process of structural transformation, and the overall growth of the economy have been debated extensively in international literature. Economists generally disagree less about the need for industrialization and the...

The process of restructuring the agricultural sector in Southern Africa will require a wide range of incentives and subsidies provided by agricultural policies. But it may depend even more on certain preconditions which have to be fulfilled by general politics, e.g. protection of human rights,...

This paper is largely based on a study of Uganda's experience in trying to develop a modern dairy industry in the 1960s and 1970s by importing dairy cattle. In many of the developing countries of Africa, and elsewhere in the world, the drive to import dairy cattle comes from the need to...