Promoting Developmental Research – a Challenge for African Universities

Mohamedbhai, Goolam

Promoting Developmental Research – a Challenge for African Universities

col.region	Africa	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Mohamedbhai, Goolam
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-07T13:20:09Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-07T13:20:09Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	There are two well-known and often-quoted facts about Sub-Saharan Africa. One is that, in spite of significant progress made in recent years, Africa remains the least developed region in the world and is unlikely to achieve all the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The other is that Africa fares very poorly in terms of research; it produces only about 1% of the world’s research publications, and the bulk of these emanate from just two countries – South Africa and Nigeria. There is a clear link between these two phenomena, and while there is general acknowledgement that the research output from Africa must be dramatically increased in order to overcome the development challenges, achieving that objective appears to be elusive. Promoting research that directly impacts on development remains a challenge for Africa	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v1i2.65
dc.identifier.issn	2311-1550
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11599/867
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Commonwealth of Learning	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of Learning for Development;vol. 1, no. 2
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0	en_US
dc.source.uri	http://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/65
dc.subject	Research	en_US
dc.title	Promoting Developmental Research – a Challenge for African Universities	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US