ISBN:
9789264196551
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (234 p.)
Serie:
Development Centre Studies
Paralleltitel:
Print version Emerging Africa
DDC:
330.96
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
;
Afrika
;
Entwicklungsökonomie
;
Wirtschaftswachstum
;
Internationaler Vergleich
Kurzfassung:
Emerging Africa is based on the fundamental conviction that, unless growth resumes, poverty cannot be reduced in the least developed countries. This study analyses the factors underlying the renewed dynamism of certain African economies in the 1990s. Several countries are, indeed, trying to meet the challenge of building the three pillars of sustainable growth -- capital accumulation, productivity gains and institutional reforms -- in order to combat long-term poverty. The authors identify the countries that are on the way to sustained growth and, on the basis of case studies, the policies the
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
CONTENTS; Preface; PART ONE ECONOMIC GROWTH SCENARIOS FOR AFRICA; Chapter 1 Renewed Progress in Africa in the 1990s?; Chapter 2 Factors of Economic Take Off in Africa; Annex Structural Change in the Productive Sector; PART TWO ANALYSIS OF GROWTH FACTORS IN SIX AFRICAN COUNTRIES; Chapter 3 Capital Accumulation; Chapter 4 Human Capital; Chapter 5 Exports; PART THREE THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM IN SIX AFRICAN COUNTRIES; Chapter 6 Overview; Chapter 7 Burkina Faso; Chapter 8 Côte d'Ivoire; Chapter 9 Ghana; Chapter 10 Mali; Chapter 11 Uganda; Chapter 12 Tanzania
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Concluding Summary Policy Options for Emerging AfricaBibliography
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1787/9789264195745-en
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