Potato processing at the industrial level is relatively insignificant in the tropical highlands of Africa in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. No large international companies are present in this area whereas they have successfully established themselves in North Africa (Egypt) and South Africa....

Before the economic crisis of 1997, Thailand was named one of the Asian newly industrialized countries (NICs). Efforts to revive the economy are currently under way in both the government and the private sector. The linkage between the status of science and technology and the economic status of a...