Pope Francis, whose two-country “pilgrimage of peace” to Africa concluded over the weekend, has been holding forth on the causes of underdevelopment in Africa. Addressing Congolese politicians and ...

Nigeria is at present the poverty capital of the world according to statistics from world multilateral agencies. There are about 18 million out-of-school children in the country and that is about the ...

More than a few book-length studies have tried to explain why some developing countries made it into the club of advanced economies during the twentieth century and others did not. Allawi, a former ...

The United Nations General Assembly, in resolution S-20/4, adopted at its twentieth special session in 1998, defined “alternative development” as a process to prevent and eliminate the illicit ...