This chapter presents three case studies from South East Asia: One Stop Services in Indonesia, development planning through participatory rural appraisal in the Philippines, and the case of simplification of administrative procedures in Vietnam.

This chapter discusses how politics shape development interventions and outcomes.

One of the more exciting innovations in the response to humanitarian crises of recent years has been the use of cash. This Good Practice Review by Paul Harvey and Sarah Bailey synthesises cash transfer guidelines, highlights lessons from evaluations and adds practical examples drawn from experience in the field.

This chapter investigates agro-industry and agribusiness in contemporary Africa. At a continental level, the wider category of agribusiness, including both upstream (input) activities and downstream processing activities, as well as distribution and marketing, is estimated to account for approximately one fifth of GDP for sub- Saharan Africa and just under half of the region’s value added in manufacturing and services. For individual African countries where data are available, the share of total manufacturing value added of the two primary agro- industrial subsectors (food and beverages, and tobacco) alone ranges from 17 per cent in South Africa to 47 per cent in Ethiopia.