The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 has refocused global attention on the centrality of sustainability to the development discourse. Meanwhile, African countries are prioritizing structural transformation in their national...

This paper seeks to advance human rights scholarship by locating the right to health within the broader frameworks of socioeconomic development and political governance. It identifies two critical factors as fundamentally responsible for the dismal state of health and wellbeing of Africans...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly the ones that are health-related, hold special significance for Africa in that they incentivize countries in the region to: first, look beyond their shores to strategies being implemented by others to improve the health and wellbeing of their...

We analyze demographic and health surveys to examine the progress of African countries in achieving six of the seven millennium development goals (MDG) set forth by the United Nations. Our results paint a discouraging picture. Despite some noteworthy progress, the evidence suggests that, in the...

During the last half century, the economic performance of the developing world has been far from uniform. Developing countries were polarised into those that made great progress in catching up and those that were mired in stagnation. Many African countries belong to the second group. Therefore,...