Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and … direct investment have positive and significant impacts on economic growth in the short and long terms, while the impact of … the labour force on growth was significantly negative in both terms, a result that may be attributable to the fact that …

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 …

Over the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability … movement of labour out of agriculture has contributed to aggregate growth. But, this trend is slowing and is leading to a … saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …

Sub-Saharan Africa's dismal development outcomes-growth collapse and declining real income-are often used to highlight … paper shows that Africa’s underlying dismal growth performance can be largely accounted for by high political risk and … uncertainty which undermined investments and growth prospects in the region over most of the post-independence era. This …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … infrastructure overprovision, simultaneity between infrastructure provision and growth, and the possibility of multiple (hence … systematic pattern is also shown to hold for our dataset in estimations that include the infrastructure measures in simple growth …

Using panel data the question whether Africa's growth performance can be accounted for is analyzed in the framework of … the augmented Solow model. Our results indicate that this model can account for Africa's low growth performance, provided …

In this paper, we first, perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on growth. Second, we …, population and labor force. That is, we disentangle the effect on the different sources of short and long run growth. Using a … and long-lasting effects on demography and growth. According to the estimates presented, GDP per working age population …

-poor growth. Poor infrastructure impedes a nation’s economic growth and international competitiveness. In fact, it has long been … recognised that an adequate supply of infrastructure services is an essential ingredient for productivity and growth. Moreover …

conservation, and sustainability and discuss policies to curb overuse and potential collapse of the resource due to present …