This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

and in the provinces of South Africa. Decomposition results for the Common Monetary Area reveal that the growth of …This paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region's Common Monetary Area … from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …

-ment growth for a set of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries using available annualdata from 1970 to 2014. A decomposition approach …The challenge of employment growth in SSA countries goes beyond economic growthprospects to include structural and … is employed in the study us-ing the Jobs Generation and Growth (JoGGs) method which generates results thatshow …