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The Institute for African Development publishes occasional papers, conference proceedings and newsletters. The Occasional Paper series is a biannual publication of multi-disciplinary, policy-oriented articles in all fields of African studies relevant to development. Manuscripts are reviewed by peers on the basis of scholarship, extent of original research, rigor of analysis, significance of the conclusions as well as the scholarship relevance to issues affecting Africa.

The Institute sponsors an annual symposium designed to bring awareness to the wider community of the critical issues confronting Africa while at the same time helping to shape debate and influence policy direction. Conference proceedings are published as a book series by Cambridge Scholars.

Africa Notes, the newsletter of the Institute, is published four times a year and is available online. It can also be ordered by writing to us at ciad@cornell.edu.

Africa, Transport and the Millennium Development Goals:
Achieving an Internationally Set Agenda

Transport is an essential service that must contribute to national development objectives in health, education, agriculture and other sectors in guiding sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty. Developing policies aimed at providing safe, reliable and affordable transport infrastructure and services can and will make a substantial and sustainable contribution to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, improving health care and reducing HIV/AIDS.

This volume—the product of an expert workshop held at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development in May, 2007—provides accounts of an array of African operational spaces in which transport is relevant to the Millennium Development Goals. It addresses many heretofore ignored dimesions of transport—mobility issues of the urban poor, of women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services. It provides an alignment of transport with the MDGs in what proves to be fertile ground for research with important messages for policy makers and consequences for policy.