Sub-Saharan Africa is a critical development priority it has some of the world's poorest countries and during the past two decades the number of poor in the region has doubled, to 300 million more than 40 percent of the region's population. Africa remains behind on most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and is unlikely to reach them by 2015. With some of the world's poorest countries, Africa is a development priority for the donor community. A major drag on Africa's development is the underperformance of the critical agriculture sector, which has been neglected both by donors and...
Sub-Saharan Africa is a critical development priority it has some of the world's poorest countries and during the past two decades the number of poor ...