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 …

resource-rich sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, where public capital is very low to support the needed economic growth. In … of public investment on economic growth, which also depends on the level of resource rents. Using some of the components …

although there has been substantial economic growth, only a relatively small group of the new middle-income countries have … poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are …

institutions, natural resource rents cease to have a negative impact on long-term growth. Institutions in resource-based economies … foster economic growth when voice and accountability are in place; broad-based rule of law is enforced with secure property …

The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … population: there can be groups of the population made poorer or non-poor made poor by growth. We propose an approach that allows …

The last two decades have seen rapid economic growth in Zambia and the proliferation of foreign supermarket chain … stores. However, this growth has translated into neither significant job creation nor significant poverty reduction … supermarket value chains and how those firms' participation might stimulate growth through regional trade. Our results show that …

redistribution and the impacts of redistribution on growth can be misleading. …