Poverty in Africa is primarily rural concentrated, about 75% of the poor population live in rural areas and draws their … extreme poverty, with the Eastern and Southern Africa having the world’s highest concentrations of poor people. The renewed … in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing faster than the population. The study examined the effect of agricultural …

"brain drain" from Africa even more, while millions of unskilled irregular migrants compete with the growing army of …

Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the dynamic economies in the world. Unfortunately, the performance achieve has not led to … public investment highlights the exogenous nature of the current economic growth. So, a change of the strategy in the … economic management of sub-Saharan Africa is required. One solution remains the change of economic paradigm: the transition …

transformation in Africa, focusing on sectoral output shares, sectoral employment shares, and the relative labour productivity of … sectors. We find that Africa is gradually advancing towards structural transformation but at a very slow speed. The empirical … product growth and population density reduce unemployment and non-employment. …

This study investigated two key questions: what is the impact of industrialisation on urbanisation in Africa? and to …

on home military spending. As the effects of increased military spending on growth are likely to be negative, our results … indicate that terrorism spillover or military spending complementarity can negatively impact a country’s growth, even in the …

development. Data on 35 African countries in 1970-2007 show that efficiency losses have constrained growth in Africa while … technology progress has played a marginal growth enhancing role in the region. Moreover, physical and human capital accumulation … are the main factors that drive productivity growth at the country level. Examining the outcomes of successful countries …

opportunities and challenges posed by the development of extraction of these metals. While Africa's share of global reserves and …

Recent studies on African economic history have emphasized the structural impediments to African growth, such as … adverse geographical conditions and extractive colonial institutions. The evidence is mainly drawn from cross …-term African growth-trajectories. We show that slave trade regressions are not robust for pre-1970s GDP per capita levels, or for …