Development Finance

Chapter 1: Domestic Resource Mobilization in Africa: Capacity Imperatives.- Chapter 2: A Chameleon Called Debt Relief: Aid modality equivalence of official debt relief to poor countries.- Chapter 3: The Impact of Microfinance on Household Livelihoods: Evidence from Rural Eritrea.- Chapter 4: Financing Structure and Financial Sustainability of Selected SADC Micro Finance Institutions.- Chapter 5: Tax buoyancy: A comparative study between Kenya and South Africa.- Chapter 6: Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: The Structural Vector Autoregressive Approach for South Africa.- Chapter 7: Foreign capital flows and output growth volatility in selected sub-Saharan African countries.- Chapter 8: Labour Productivity and Capital Accumulation - Remittance effect in the case of Africa.

Nicholas Biekpe is Professor of Development Finance and Econometrics at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, and Executive Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Development Finance, South Africa. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Development Finance, Executive Editor of the African Finance Journal, Africagrowth Agenda, and Development Finance Agenda, and Editor of the Journal of African Trade.

Danny Cassimon is Professor at the Institute of Development Policy and Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He researches and publishes widely in the field of 'finance for development', particularly on topics related to sovereign debt sustainability and relief, and on applying real option theories to development-related (global) policy decisions.

Andrew Mullineux is Professor of Financial Economics and Head of the Department of Finance, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Andrew researches and publishes widely in the fields of money, banking and finance, including business cycles and financial crisis. In the development finance area, he works on access to finance, including micro and SME financing, financial sector development and monetary unions.