The regionalProjectimplementedinUganda on “Development and Promotion of Value-addedMeat Productsin Sub-SaharanAfrica” wasdesignedas a multi-donorprojectin 1996-1999.
The push to increase small and medium-sized business in the developing world is headed by Sonal Shah, who came to Google after stints at Goldman Sachs, and earlier in the U.S. Treasury Department, working on development in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as at start-ups in environmental and alternative energy businesses.
Over the past two decades, poverty rates in every region of the globe went down except in sub-Saharan Africa, where war and disease have hampered development.
UN's Conference on Trade and Development reports that sub-Saharan Africa's exports of manufactured goods have risen by an average of just under 6% a year since 1980, less than half the figure for Asia's developing economies .