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ACBF African Policy Research Abstracts Series (APRAS)

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The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) is pleased to publish the maiden edition of the ACBF African Policy Research Abstracts Series (APRAS). A product of the Foundation’s knowledge management program, APRAS provides concise summaries of planned (seminal ideas), on-going and completed research works on Africa’s socio-economic development and capacity building issues. Contributors to the Series are policy researchers, analysts and practitioners among other development management professionals who are engaged in the conduct of policy analysis and research works during the year in which the abstracts are published. The authors can be contacted directly or through the Foundation for further information.

The aim of APRAS is to raise the general level of awareness of planned, on-going and recently completed policy analysis and research works among academics, policy researchers, policy makers, development management institutions, capacity building organizations and the broader development community with strong professional interest in Africa’s development issues. The objectives are to:

• Facilitate dissemination of policy analysis and research works with a view to strengthening the link between applied policy research and policymaking.
  
  
• Provide a channel for linking applied policy researchers and policy analysts with users of outputs of policy analysis and research in order to strengthen dialogue, exchanges and collaborative work.
  
  
• Provide information on active academic and professional policy analysts and researchers on Africa’s socio-economic development issues who can constitute a valuable database of intellectuals that can easily be reached by the development community for professional assignments and consultancies.

This maiden issue carries abstracts in both English and French and consists of works in the areas of agriculture, capacity building, corruption and governance, education, employment, exchange rate reforms, finance, health, inflation, poverty and development, privatization, statistics, taxation and trade.

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