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Structural Transformation in Africa : A Historical View

Enache, Maria; Ghani, Ejaz; O'Connell, Stephen D. - 2016

This paper presents evidence suggesting that the relationship between income and economic structure is shifting over time, with countries across the income distribution uniformly increasing the share of labor in service sectors and an increasingly less stark relationship between manufacturing...

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Structural Transformation and Productivity Growth in Africa : Uganda in the 2000s

Ahmed, Sabin; Mengistae, Taye; Yoshino, Yutaka; … - 2015

Uganda’s economy underwent significant structural change in the 2000s whereby the share of non-tradable services in aggregate employment rose by about 7 percentage points at the expense of the production of tradable goods. The process also involved a 12-percentage-point shift in employment...

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Is Africa's Economy at a Turning Point?

Arbache, Jorge Saba; Go, Delfin S.; Page, John M. - 2012

In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the …

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Climate Change, Industrial Transformation, and "Development Traps"

Golub, Alexander; Toman, Michael A. - 2014

This paper examines the possibility of environmental "development traps," or "brown poverty traps," caused by interactions between the impacts of climate change and increasing returns in the development of "clean-technology" sectors. A simple specification is used in which the economy can...

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Housing Finance and Inclusive Growth in Africa : Benchmarking, Determinants, and Effects

Nguena, Christian Lambert; Tchana Tchana, Fulbert; … - 2016

the structure of housing finance in Africa, its determinants, and its impact on inclusive growth. The findings show that … of demand and supply. In addition, the analysis finds that housing finance development in Africa is not yet an effective … housing finance and greater economic development in Africa. All these findings suggest that policies to boost housing finance …

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On the Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Islamic Finance

Ahmed, Habib; Mohieldin, Mahmoud Safwat; Verbeek, Peter J. - 2015

The Sustainable Development Goals, the global development agenda for 2015 through 2030, will require unprecedented mobilization of resources to support their implementation. Their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, focused on a limited number of concrete, global human development...

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Liberia : Strategic Policy Options for Medium Term Growth and Development

Dessus, S??bastien; Hoffman, Jariya; Löfgren, Hans - 2013

The objective of this paper is to inform Liberia's medium-term growth and development strategy for 2012-17 and its National Vision: Liberia Rising 2030, both of which are under preparation. The analysis is based on MAMS (Maquette for MDG [Millennium Development Goal]) Simulations, a computable...

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Achieving Accelerated and Shared Growth in Ghana : A MAMS-Based Analysis of Costs and Opportunities

Bogeti??, ??eljko; Medvedev, Denis; Bussolo, Maurizio - 2012

This paper relies on the recently developed Maquette for Millennium Development Goals Simulations (MAMS) model to assess the consistency of alternative scaling-up and policy packages for growth and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in Ghana. In the baseline scenario, Ghana's strong...

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Policy Options for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil : Can Micro-Simulations Help?

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G. - 2003

The authors investigate whether micro-simulation techniques can shed light on the types of policies that should be adopted by countries wishing to meet their Millennium Development Goals. They compare two families of micro-simulations. The first family of micro-simulations decomposes required...

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The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies

Diao, Xinshen; Harttgen, Kenneth; McMillan, Margaret - 2017

Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …

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