Workers' Dilemmas reexamines the relationships between social networks and labour markets. The author argues provocatively about the ways in which work patterns, family ...

The central role that good, effective and capable governance plays in the economic and social development of a country is now widely recognised. Using the Commonwealth ...

Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa ...

Globally, the volume of remittances to developing countries exceeds the development aid budgets. This volume explores the contribution of remittances to Africaâ (TM)s finances ...

At Christmas and on rainy days, the women traders of Accra make use of taxis and other high cost forms of transport. On normal days, many transport their goods and themselves ...