The paper explores the potential of Ghana's agro-processing industry in contributing to the development and structural …

employment generating sectors of mining and oil extraction. Fixing the problem of the missing middle of dwindling manufacturing …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 …

while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise … known as Nigeria Vision 20: 2020, sets the direction for the current industrial policy in Nigeria. The industrialization … industrial activity with primary sector activity, domestic and foreign trade, and service activity. …

In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend … in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the … context of a stagnant manufacturing sector and an oil-based expansion. We show that there was an initial decline in earnings …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first …

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since …

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces …

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 … Nigeria's growth over the last decade has been 'jobless' and sustained largely by factor reallocations rather than …

trend has emerged: a rise in the share of public sector employment along with higher conditional returns to public sector … structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the … economy and a rising trend in the use of labour brokers to source temporary workers. Finally, we show a new labour market …