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 …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical … significant contribution in promoting economic growth in the country. This finding is found to be robust across approaches and … specifications. Whilst aid may have been associated with improvement in economic growth in the country, its impact during the period …

direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and … direct investment have positive and significant impacts on economic growth in the short and long terms, while the impact of … the labour force on growth was significantly negative in both terms, a result that may be attributable to the fact that …

Ghana's status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country's remarkable growth performance, which culminated … in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally …, growth has been accompanied by substantial reduction in poverty, albeit increasing inequality. This development is explained …

Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a … saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …

African countries to spur growth and employment. Most special economic zones implemented in Southern Africa have largely … failed to bring adequate growth and employment due to numerous constraints. Globally, selected countries have successfully … practice and review the implications for implementation and sustainability strategy in Southern Africa. The main findings point …

understand the relative importance of its sectoral sources of growth. This study aims at eliciting our understanding in this … respect by providing an assessment of the relative importance of the major sectors as sources of growth in sub-Saharan African … contributor to economic growth in SSA countries, rather it is the service sector that leads, followed by agriculture and …

. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in …