No country has achieved sustained economic development without investment in education. Thus, education policy can play … a vital role in facilitating development. But which types of schooling-secondary or tertiary-should public policy … stock determines a country's development. Hence, promoting the "wrong" type of schooling can have little effect on …

Estimates of the current and future structure of employment in sub-Saharan Africa (2005–20) are obtained based on … household survey estimates for 28 countries and an elasticity-type model that relates employment to economic growth and … employment, means that even if sub-Saharan Africa realizes another decade of strong growth, the share of labor force employed in …

India has followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared with other fast-growing Asian economies …. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill …

fostering economic growth and development. This paper provides a selective review of the literature, as well as new empirical … evidence on the relationship between financial development and economic growth for a large cross-section sample of countries …. While the results indicate that the effect of financial development on growth is positive, the size of the effect varies …

Botswana is typical of the countries that are endowed with abundant natural resources. Although it is commonly accepted … performance in the region. Using the latest cross-country data, this study empirically readdresses the question of whether …

This paper elaborates on a number of key principles that need to underpin a coherent and development …

declines. Monetary policy, financial development, per capita GDP, and the de jure exchange rate classification matter less …

behavior of the strong toward the weak, in preconditions for economic development. …