support the development of manufacturing or export-oriented service sectors. Yet the recent growth experience of many African … economic growth and structural change by developing a multisector intertemporal general equilibrium model. We find that the … substantial short-run growth shock consistent with the Dutch disease theory. Opposed short-run effects on the growth of the …

Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The … require Ghana to double its per capita income over the next decade. In this paper we explore the growth experiences of other … evaluate sources of accelerated growth and their contributions to overall growth and transformation... The authors conclude …

quite striking when compared with the past. For the first time, the sector has maintained a real growth rate of 3.4 percent … per year, well above the population growth rate of 2.5 percent. Despite this improved performance, agricultural … productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the …

years, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP … performance, economies in SSA face serious challenges to sustain growth. Among these are the small contribution of technological … change to TFP growth in the past, the large tax burden imposed by remaining distortions, and the challenge of population …

, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using a nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP estimates show a … an important role in improving agriculture's performance. As TFP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly a result of … catching up to the frontier, we expect growth to slow in the coming years unless African countries accelerate the incorporation …

area expanded at 4.7 percent. The remaining growth resulted from intensive use of other inputs, increased productivity …, increased efficiency, or a combination of these factors. This study applies growth accounting and two econometric approaches on …

as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …

-change-induced higher global prices for food will lower Yemen's overall GDP growth, raise agricultural GDP, decrease real household incomes …

growth and poverty. Our results indicate that maximizing the poverty-reducing effects of a biofuels industry in Tanzania …-poor growth than do sugarcane-based systems. However, if smallholder yields can be improved rather than expanding cultivated land …