Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing …

The concept of green growth implies that a wide range of developmental objectives, such as job creation, economic … rather than being win-win, green growth is similar to most types of policy reforms that advocate the acceptance of short …-term adjustment costs in the expectation of long-term gains. In particular, green growth policies often encourage developing countries …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … Nigeria's growth over the last decade has been 'jobless' and sustained largely by factor reallocations rather than …'s paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition …

The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as … case studies the two African countries, Botswana and Nigeria.Using distributed-lag analysis, the paper finds that the … supportive of the 'resource curse' hypothesis for Nigeria, but not for Botswana.I further argue that the superior institutional …

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces … growth. However, when we identify an inequality threshold, we find that inequality is positively associated with growth if …

After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as …