Toward New Perspectives of Capacity Building in Developing and Emerging Countries: An Overview

Abstract

Capacity building has always been considered as a critical tool for promoting sustainable socioeconomic development particularly in Developing and Emerging Countries. Most development experts concur with the idea that without capacity building, it would be difficult to promote socioeconomic development. Accordingly, for the last few decades, the international institutions for development have provided a huge amount of financial assistance for capacity building in Developing Countries. Unfortunately, in the majority of these countries and in particular in many Africans countries, poverty has remained prevalent. What are the challenges explaining the limited results from the capacity building efforts in Developing and Emerging Countries? Based on the previous experience, what can be done better? This book explores these questions and sheds light on some underexplored but critical areas of capacity building such as mindset transformation, entrepreneurship, and diaspora investment. Therefore, the first section addresses how to reduce the capacity gap in order to promote sustainable economic transformation. The second section focuses on capacity building in entrepreneurship and export activities of SMEs. The third section addresses the involvement of the diaspora in the capacity building efforts of their home countries and the last section of the book discusses capacity building focusing on the improvement of the business environment in Developing and Emerging Countries.