Africa: Link between research development policies

This paper from Global Development Network says Sub-Saharan African countries have realised in recent years the centrality of higher education as a means to achieve development. Indeed through enhancing the production of knowledge and know-how, research becomes an engine of endogenous and sustainable development. Today research in African universities and in national centers of research is mainly sustained by financial support from international cooperation. The low level of development these countries suffer from leads research to be relegated to the background of the governments' national and economic policies.