This study sought to investigate the various SME development support initiatives in Zambia with a view to analyze the challenges as well as identify opportunities for further improvement. Considering the importance of SMEs in poverty reduction, the study examined the evolution of Zambia's SME sector, the various SME policy initiatives and policy shifts as well as the existing institutional arrangements for SME support in Zambia. It further identified the challenges to SME development and support and lastly, it identified the opportunities for further improvement of SME development in Zambia. An analysis of various initiatives and policy measures revealed a number of challenges that are embedded in SME support institutions, organizations and entrepreneurs themselves. A great challenge still remains in creating a supportive and inclusive environment, tailored to the needs of the various SMEs in Zambia. Thus, the development of SMEs require concerted efforts and the will from all actors involved as well as learning from experiences of other countries (with caution). Further, the study identified opportunities and drew recommendations for the improvement of both policy and action.

Much has been written about the reform of the United Nations, particularly its Security Council. However, there has been no research on Africa's demand for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Most of the writing has focused on the jostling for permanent seats on the UN Security Council by a plethora of states, with Africa's demand portrayed as an afterthought. Africa is demanding a permanent seat on the UN Security Council to enable it to effectively contribute to the peacekeeping and conflict resolutions of the UN Security Council, whose agenda is dominated by African issues. This book interrogates the problems inherent in the exclusion of Africa from UN Security Council permanent membership and the significance of Africa's inclusion therein. Since the Charter of the UN does not have a known criteria for the selection of UN Security Council permanent members, this book makes recommendations on how UN Security Council permanent membership should be attained; the processes that Africa should undertake to secure permanent membership of the UN Security Council and the criteria to be used in selecting its permanent representatives in the UN Security Council.

El efecto agresivo que esta sufriendo el planeta a consecuencia de la actividad humana, ha conducido a la busqueda de energias alternas. La electroquimica, como area interdisciplinaria, ofrece un amplio espectro de posibilidades para la investigacion, tanto en el area de combustibles fosiles, como en esa busqueda planteada. La electrocatalisis abre una amplia ventana de conocimiento para modificar e incrementar la velocidad de una reaccion, por medio de materiales electrocatalizadores. Sabemos que el hidrogeno es el combustible por excelencia para minimizar la contaminacion de nuestro planeta, pero tambien sabemos que su produccion y almacenaje tienen un costo alto. Por ello ha surgido la investigacion en la oxidacion de moleculas organicas con numero bajo de carbonos a fin de ser usados como combustibles con menor incidencia en la emision de CO2. En esta investigacion se pretende desarrollar, electrocatalizadores que ofrezcan una alta actividad hacia la oxidacion de etanol, incorporando particulas metalicas de rutenio y paladio dentro de un sustrato metalico de molibdeno y controlando algunos parametros como: la velocidad y tiempo de deposicion, concentracion de la sal precursora"