employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …

structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the … trend has emerged: a rise in the share of public sector employment along with higher conditional returns to public sector …

in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally … employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that … services sector. Employment elasticity of growth was positive and quite low, reflecting the country's poor overall employment …

outcomes, on the other hand, refer to the patterns of growth, inflation, employment, investment, balance of payments, and the … acceleration of output growth and employment creation, and contributed to reducing poverty rates. -- Latin American economies … ; macroeconomic policies ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty rates ; inequality …

During the 2000s Chile achieved rapid economic growth and improved most labour market indicators: the unemployment rate … fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population … indicators were negatively affected by the crisis. The unemployment rate was the only indicator that did not return to its pre …

place of households in the economy as reflected by employment sector and geographical location, and the extent to which the … processes of growth, particularly through accessible and remunerative employment. …

services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing …

labour use, although growth-employment elasticities have slightly declined in recent years. Whereas formal wage employment … growth has closely tracked gross domestic product growth since 2004, such a relationship is absent with respect to employment …