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 …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

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 …

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 …

his paper examines the importance of achieving high agricultural growth as a means of accelerating Ethiopiaâ …€™s economic transformation. The conclusions are that a high rate of agricultural growth has farreaching positive implications for … increasing employment and accelerating poverty reduction. An agricultural GDP of six percent is feasible through a high growth …

""Ghana’s Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II; November, 2005) which spans the period 2006 – 2009 … I to a more growth-oriented strategy. The development agenda of the country, as set out in GPRS II is now geared towards … achieving middle income status by 2015. In other words, accelerating economic growth is to be given priority. This growth …