ATDF Journal Volume 4, Issue 4: Infrastructure and Development
The African Technology Development Forum Journal Volume 4, Issue 4 looks at infrastructure-related issues and development with a special focus on stock, role of engineering, procurement and country experiences. It also takes a special look at the resource mobilization for development and innovation a least developed country.Highlights:
ATDF Call for Business Plans (Entrepreneurship Investment Support 2008 (up to US$ 50’000!)
UNCTAD’s Women in Business Award 2008—finalists
Inside this Issue
Difference Within Peers: The Infrastructure Stock in the Least Developed Countries
Lisa Borgatti
The Role of Engineering in Building Africa’s Infrastructure
Calestous Juma and Bob W. Bell, Jr.
Technological capabilities and learning in small countries: the case of Cape Verde islands
Alexandre O. Vera-Cruz, Gabriela Dutrénit, Arturo Torres
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for Africa’s development
Samuel K. Gayi
Infrastructure and Development – Malaysia’s experience
Sufian Jusoh
Modifying infrastructure procurement to enhance social development
John Hawkins and Jill Wells
Call for Papers on Services and Development:
The ATDF Journal is pleased to announce a call for papers and contributors for the next issue on Services and Development. Services are crucial to development because they matter in all areas of economic activity. It comprises traditional public services (e.g. infrastructure, education, public health, environmental conservation) but also increasingly private service providers that address not just the needs of well-endowed foreign companies and other non-state actors but also the needs of the poorest of the poor. Examples are private schools and medical stations in poor urban and rural areas provided at a small fee the user can afford while getting a decent access to the service. Such private service providers have almost public good character, but they are largely neglected by the donor community (who prefer to provide these services themselves).
The issue looks for contributions that address a particular area of service provision in areas such as investment, trade, social services and development in general. The papers could discuss the new trends and characteristics of private service providers, and their contributions to human development, with a particular interested in contributions that propose new approaches and mechanisms that reward local private sector initiatives in areas that produce large social welfare effects.
