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Economic Development in Africa 2004
Author: African Development Report 2004
Author: African Development BankPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199271795
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The African Development Report 2004 is the sixteenth annual survey of economic and social progress in Africa. The Report provides comprehensive analysis of the State of the African Economy, examining development policy issues affecting the economic prospects of the continent.
Annual Report 2004
Author: African Economic Outlook 2004
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264016260
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Languages : en
Pages : 425
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This 2004 edition of the African Economic Outlook, a joint project between the African Development Bank and the OECD Development Centre, reviews the recent economic situation and the short-term likely evolutions of selected African countries.
African Economic Development
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book challenges conventional wisdoms both about economic performance and about policies for economic development in African countries. Its starting point is the striking variation in economic performance: unevenness and inequalities form a central fact. The authors highlight not only differences between African countries but also variations within countries, differences often organized around distinctions of gender, class, and ethnic identity. For example, school dropout and neonatal mortality have been reduced, particularly for some classes of women in some areas. Horticultural and agribusiness exports have grown far more rapidly in some countries than others. These variations (and many others) point to opportunities for changing performance, reducing inequalities, learning from other African policy experiences, and escaping the ties of structure and legacies of a colonial past. The book rejects teleological illusions and Eurocentric prejudice, but 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 is likely to be a smooth, linear process, or that it would be were certain impediments removed. The authors criticize a wide range of orthodox and heterodox economists, especially for their cavalier attitude to statistical sources. Drawing on decades of research and policy experience, they combine careful use of available evidence from a range of African countries with heterodox political economy insights (mainly derived from Kalecki, Kaldor, and Hirschman) to make the policy case for specific types of public sector investment.
African Development Indicators 2004
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821357200
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This volume contains more than 500 economic, social and environmental data indicators from a wide variety of sources for 53 African countries and five regional country groups, in order to present a broad picture of development across the continent. The data covers the period 1980-2002, and is grouped into 16 chapters which cover: selected background data; national accounts; prices and exchange rates; money and banking; external sector issues; external debt and related flows; government finance; agriculture; power, communications and transportation; privatisation of public enterprises; labour force and employment; aid flows; social indicators; environmental indicators; the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative; and household welfare.
Economic Report on Africa, 2004
Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for AfricaPublisher: UNECA
ISBN: 9789211250947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Economic Report on Africa 2004 is the fifth in an annual series that reviews the continent's economic performance and near-term prospects. In 2003, Africa was the second fastest-growing developing region with real GDP growth of 3.8 per cent, driven by higher oil prices and production, rising commodity prices, increased foreign direct investment (FDI), better macroeconomic management, and good weather conditions. But the report takes the view that OECD trade policies are a serious constraint to Africa's integration into the global economy. African exports have been handicapped by industrial country policies such as tari. escalation, tari. peaks and agricultural protectionism. Africa's share in world merchandise exports fell from 6.3 per cent in 1980 to 2.5 per cent in 2000 in value terms. But the report also argues that strengthening Africa's supply side capacity is essential to more successful integration into the global economy. Weak infrastructure, poor trade facilitation services, and inadequate physical and human capital are impediments to the development of Africa's export sectors. Faster overall growth is needed if Africa is to make progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015.
Urbanization and Industrialization for Africa's Transformation
Author: Publisher: UN
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The 2017 Economic Report on Africa focuses on the linkages between industrialization and urbanization. Urbanization is one of Africa mega trends with profound implications for the social, economic, environmental dimensions of growth and transformation. Theory and experience demonstrate that industrialization and urbanization can be mutually reinforcing processes. It is therefore imperative to explore the linkages between urbanization and industrialization given the profound implications for structural transformation in Africa. So far, current policy narratives and frameworks on structural transformation and industrialization in Africa have largely failed to factor in the spatial and urban dimensions of industrialization, and in particular the advantages presented by productivity enhancement and agglomeration effects generated by cities. Yet, the nexus between urbanization and industrialization is of particular relevance for Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. Both agendas recognize urbanization as a critical factor for sustainable development. It is also important to consider urbanization and industrialization in light of Africa's engagement with the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) to be held in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016. In this context, African policy makers have clearly recognized urbanization as an engine of structural transformation for inclusive and sustainable growth.
The Development Decade?
Author: Vishnu PadayacheePublisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796921239
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Locating the South African challenges within a broader international perspective, this study covers all the major economic growth challanges from employment, industrial policy, urban governance, and the informal economy to the social challenges of poverty, inequality, HIV/AIDS, and health policy. The key development debates of the post-apartheid era are outlined and the success of a decade of reform and experimentation is considered by a wide range of international development specialists, including American economists Gil Hart and Michael Carter; British economist Jonathan Michie; and South African Scholars Alan Whitesides, Julian May, and Mike Morris.
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