Economic Development In Africa 2015

Author : Davis, Junior,Laura Páez,Bineswaree Bolaky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Africa
ISBN : 921057284X

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Economic Development in Africa by Davis, Junior,Laura Páez,Bineswaree Bolaky Pdf

"The services sector critical source of income and employment in Africa. As the most dominant sector in many African economies, it has become a dynamic driver of growth in the continent in recent years. This dynamism, however, has not translated into a structural transformation of the continent. Africa's services provision remains suboptimal and is delivered at a high cost. Various regulatory and policy shortcomings prevail, which explain these inefficiencies and impede Africa's capacity to fully capitalize on the potential of its services sector. If the continent is to fully realize the benefits of development, services must play an enhanced role in the growth process. Regulation of and policies for infrastructure services need to better target existing market failures and address structural impediments to improve performance in the sector and unleash the potential of Africa's services economy. The Economic Development in Africa Report 2015, subtitled Unlocking the Potential of Africa's Services Trade for Growth and Development, examines some of the major policy issues that underlie Africa's services sector and provides policy guidance on how services could contribute to Africa's regional integration and generate inclusive growth and employment. More broadly, the report discusses how services can contribute to sustainable growth and development continent-wide, especially given the enabling role of services and their capacity to link with other sectors. Africa needs to boost services trade and become better integrated in global value chains. The report makes specific and actionable policy recommendations on how to better leverage Africa's services trade and the related development, employment and growth benefits. The report emphasizes the need for greater policy coherence at the national, regional and international levels to address services sector and trade policy disconnects."--Publisher's description.

Author : African Development Bank,OECD,United Nations Development Programme
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264233300

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African Economic Outlook 2015 Regional Development and Spatial Inclusion by African Development Bank,OECD,United Nations Development Programme Pdf

The African Economic Outlook 2015 analyses Africa’s growing role in the world economy and predicts the continent’s two-year prospects in crucial areas: macroeconomics, financing, trade policies and regional integration, human development, and governance.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022155043

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Economic Development in Africa by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

"This new book provides analyses of capitalism versus socialism as well as case studies illuminating the latest economic developments in the shift taking place in Africa."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Horman Chitonge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317575290

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Economic Growth and Development in Africa by Horman Chitonge Pdf

In recent years, Africa has undergone the longest period of sustained economic growth in the continent’s history, drawing the attention of the international media and academics alike. This book analyses the Africa Rising narrative from multidisciplinary perspectives, offering a critical assessment of the explanations given for the poor economic growth and development performance in Africa prior to the millennium and the dramatic shift towards the new Africa. Bringing in perspectives from African intellectuals and scholars, many of whom have previously been overlooked in this debate, the book examines the construction of Africa’s economic growth and development portraits over the years. It looks at two institutions that play a vital role in African development, providing a detailed explanation of how the World Bank and the IMF have interpreted and dealt with the African challenges and experiences. The insightful analysis reveals that if Africa is rising, only 20-30 per cent of Africans are aboard the rising ship, and the main challenge facing the continent today is to bring on board the majority of Africans who have been excluded from growth. This book makes the complex, and sometimes confusing debates on Africa’s economic growth experience more accessible to a wide range of readers interested in the Africa story. It is essential reading for students and researchers in African Studies, and will be of great interest to scholars in Development Studies, Political Economy, and Development Economics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9211128889

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Economic Development in Africa 2015 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822035522689

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Economic Development in Africa by Anonim Pdf

One of the most prominent objectives of the Millennium Development Goals is to have member States halve their levels of absolute poverty by 2015. Whilst some developing countries are making progress towards this target, recent statistics show indicate that in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa the numbers living in poverty is increasing. One of the reasons for this is its relatively low rate of economic growth.This year's Economic Development in Africa report examines the potential of African countries to strengthen domestic financial resource mobilisation, in order to reduce dependence on official development assistance (ODA), and diversify their development resources and channel these resources to productive investments. It highlights the need for "developmental States" in Africa with the required policy space to design and implement policies that address their priorities and make optimal use of available resources in a way that leads to a virtuous circle of accumulation, investment, growth and poverty reduction.

Author : Dina M. Nziku,John J. Struthers
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800713222

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Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa by Dina M. Nziku,John J. Struthers Pdf

Presenting a topical analysis of the challenges and achievements of enterprise, Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa examines contributions to economic development on the continent, as well as exploring implications for policy dimensions.

Author : Akbar Noman,Joseph E. Stiglitz,Ravi Kanbur
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231550987

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The Quality of Growth in Africa by Akbar Noman,Joseph E. Stiglitz,Ravi Kanbur Pdf

In recent years, concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, with a primary focus on sub-Saharan countries. Contributors discuss the measurement of growth, the transformations necessary to sustain it, and issues around equity and well-being. They consider topics such as the distribution of income gains from growth; the extent to which economic growth has resulted in improvements in employment, poverty, and security; structural transformations of the economy and diversification of the sources of growth; environmental sustainability; and management of urbanization. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into advancements in well-being. Although the book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, much of the contributors’ incisive analysis has implications for countries outside the region.

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822036069235

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Economic Development in Africa by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Pdf

After two decades of adjustment without economic growth, there are some real signs of improving economic performance in Africa, including new trade and investment opportunities arising from increasing demand in emerging markets, and there has also been progress on debt relief. This report examines how the commitment by the international community to double aid to Africa by 2015 might place the continent on a sustainable development path and concludes that, if this commitment is to translate into sustainable poverty reduction, new thinking is required to tackle the unbalanced state of the international aid system, such as high transaction costs, lack of transparency and excessive demands placed on the weak institutions of recipients. The "big push" needed requires a new aid architecture with a much larger multilateral component, managed under different institutional arrangements, and the provision of much greater policy autonomy to recipients.

Author : Assistant Professor Morten Jerven
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783601356

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Africa by Assistant Professor Morten Jerven Pdf

‘A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.’ Foreign Affairs Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries. What, then, is the truth behind Africa’s growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, Morten Jerven fundamentally reframes the debate, challenging mainstream accounts of African economic history. Whilst for the past two decades experts have focused on explaining why there has been a ‘chronic failure of growth’ in Africa, Jerven shows that most African economies have been growing at a rapid pace since the mid nineties. In addition, African economies grew rapidly in the fifties, the sixties, and even into the seventies. Thus, African states were dismissed as incapable of development based largely on observations made during the 1980s and early 1990s. The result has been misguided analysis, and few practical lessons learned. This is an essential account of the real impact economic growth has had on Africa, and what it means for the continent’s future.

Author : Dina M. Nziku,John J. Struthers
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800713246

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Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa by Dina M. Nziku,John J. Struthers Pdf

Presenting a topical analysis of the challenges and achievements of enterprise, Enterprise and Economic Development in Africa examines contributions to economic development on the continent, as well as exploring implications for policy dimensions.

Author : Kararach, George,Besada, Hany
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447328575

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Development in Africa by Kararach, George,Besada, Hany Pdf

Since 2000, countries across Africa have maintained over a decade of unprecedented economic expansion in a phenomena known as ‘Africa rising’. However, despite pockets of strong economic growth, Africa still faces major development challenges. In this important book the contributors argue that Africa as a continent must work on securing social and political stability and build effective economic governance to ensure the development of a society that is socially, economically and politically inclusive. Looking beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the contributors highlight what they consider to be the 12 major public policy conversations of the continent post-2015, from the legacy of African leadership, to the ‘youth bulge’ (and resulting unemployment) and climate change. The volume presents policy makers, academics and students with a chance to take a fresh look at urgent emerging challenges in post-MDG African development.

Author : Christopher Cramer,John Sender,Arkebe Oqubay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198832331

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African Economic Development by Christopher Cramer,John Sender,Arkebe Oqubay Pdf

"This book challenges conventional wisdoms about economic performance and possible policies for economic development in African countries. Its starting point is the striking variation in African economic performance. Unevenness and inequalities form a central fact of African economic experiences. The authors highlight not only differences between countries, but also variations within countries, differences often organized around distinctions of gender, class, and ethnic identity. For example, neo-natal mortality and school dropout have been reduced, particularly for some classes of women in some areas of Africa. Horticultural and agribusiness exports have grown far more rapidly in some countries than in others. These variations (and many others) point to opportunities for changing performance, reducing inequalities, learning from other policy experiences, and escaping the ties of structure, and the legacies of a colonial past. The book rejects teleological illusions and Eurocentric prejudice, but it does pay close attention to the results of policy in more industrialized parts of the world. Seeing the contradictions of capitalism for what they are - fundamental and enduring - may help policy officials protect themselves against the misleading idea that development can be expected to be a smooth, linear process, or that it would be were certain impediments suddenly removed. The authors criticize a wide range of orthodox and heterodox economists, especially for their cavalier attitude to evidence. Drawing on their own decades of research and policy experience, they combine careful use of available evidence from a range of African countries with political economy insights (mainly derived from Kalecki, Kaldor and Hischman) to make the policy case for specific types of public sector investment"--

Author : Emmanuel Nnadozie
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0125199929

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African Economic Development by Emmanuel Nnadozie Pdf

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Author : Morten Jerven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424592

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The Wealth and Poverty of African States by Morten Jerven Pdf

A new account of economic performance and state development in African countries across the long twentieth century.