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Africa's Lions : Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies / Haroon Bhorat, Finn Tarp.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Job creation.
- Economic history.
- Economic development.
- Job creation--Africa.
- Economic development--Africa.
- Africa.
- Africa--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ; cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Brookings Institution Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Africa's Lions examines the economic growth experiences of six fast-growing and/or economically dominant African countries. Expert African researchers offer unique perspectives into the challenges and issues in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Africa.Despite a growing body of research on African economies, very little research has focused on the relationship between economic growth and employment outcomes at the detailed country level. A lack of empirical data has, in many cases, deprived policymakers of a robust evidence base on which to make informed decisions. By harnessing country-level household, firm, and national accounts data, together with existing analytical country research, the authors have attempted to bridge this gap.
- Contents:
- The pursuit of long-run economic growth in Africa : an overview of key challenges / Haroon Bhorat and Finn Tarp
- Ethiopia : an agrarian economy in transition / Yared Seid and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
- Understanding Ghana's success growth story and job creation concerns / Ernest Aryeetey and William Baah-Boateng
- Economic growth, labor market dynamics and the prospects for a demographic dividend in Kenya / Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Francis M. Mwega, and Njuguna S. Ndung'u
- Understanding Mozambique's growth experience through an employment lens / Sam Jones and Finn Tarp
- Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria / Olu Ajakaiye, Afeikhena T. Jerome, Olufunke A. Alaba, and David Nabena
- Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa / Haroon Bhorat, Karmen Naidoo, Morne Oosthuizen, and Kavisha Pillay.
- Notes:
- Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- ISBN:
- 0-8157-5019-6
- OCLC:
- 1222793564
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